CONTENTS
Translator's Foreword = ⅸ
Introduction = 3
PART Ⅰ. FILM THEORY
1. Elements of Theory and Technique = 11
The Sad Future of Film(1930) = 11
For the First Time(1931) = 13
Film and Radio(1933) = 15
Remarks on Color Film(1935) = 18
Art Today and Film(1965) = 23
2. Sound Film = 29
Sound Film(1928) = 29
Sound Film Confusion(1929) = 32
The Singing Fool(1929) = 36
Atlantic(1929) = 38
Sound Film by Force(1931) = 39
Sound Film Gone Astray(1932) = 42
Philosophy of th Aha(1933) = 44
Sounds in the Left Hand(1933) = 47
Asynchronism(1934) = 49
3. Production = 52
In Praise of Character Actors(1931) = 52
Heroes for the Heart(1932) = 54
Lighting(1934) = 56
Who is the Author of a Film?(1934) = 62
4. Contents and Styles = 70
Style and Monotony in Film(1931) = 70
Death in Film(1932) = 72
Where Does Art Begin?(1933) = 74
Style(1934) = 76
Epic and Dramatic Film(1934) = 78
Symbols(1934) = 81
Expressionist Film(1934) = 84
Painting and Film(1934) = 86
5. Film and the State = 89
Film and Its Stepmother(1929) = 89
Kuhle Wampe(1932) = 93
Censorship without Scruples(1932) = 94
So-Called Freedom(1932) = 96
PART Ⅱ. FILM CRITICISM
6. Toward a Theory of Film Criticism = 101
Note(1927) = 101
Professional Film Criticism(1929) = 101
The Film Critic of Tomorrow(1935) = 105
7. Stachelschwein Reviews(1925 to 1928) = 111
Dr. Caligari Redivivus(1925) = 111
Buster Keaton as Sherlock Holmes, Jr.(1925) = 112
The Phantom of the Opera(1925) = 113
Emil Jannings : Variety(1926) = 116
Metropolis(1927) = 117
The Elisabeth Bergner Film "Love"(Liebe)(1927) = 119
Pudovkin's Mother(1927) = 121
Buster Keaton's General(1927) = 123
"The Weavers"(Die Weber)(1927) = 124
Lecture on the Napoleon Film(1927) = 126
Circus(1928) = 129
The End of St. Petersburg, Plus Peripheral Comments and Side-Glances(1928) = 130
Spies(1928) = 134
Erich von Stroheim in the Kamera(1928) = 136
8. Weltb$$\ddot u$$hne Reviews(1928 to 1933) = 140
Accusation against a Good Film(1928) = 140
Lotte Reiniger's Silhouette Films(1928) = 141
Greeks and Mongols(1929) = 142
Old Chaplin Films(1929) = 145
Silent Beauty and Noisy Nonsense(1929) = 147
By Rocket to the Moon(1929) = 152
Tauber Sound and Studio(1930) = 153
Ermler and Eisenstein(1930) = 156
Chaplin, Now as Then(1931) = 158
Garbo and Gassenhauer(1931) = 159
Granowsky Experiments(1931) = 161
Cinema Rondo(1931) = 164
Tabu(1931) = 167
The Russians Are Playing(1931) = 168
Morocco(1931) = 172
Partly Expensive, Partly Good(1931) = 173
Dishonored(X27)(1932) = 178
French Film(1932) = 179
Answer(1932) = 183
Josef von Sternberg Cables(1932) = 184
Shanghai Express(1932) = 186
Escape into the Scenery(1932) = 187
Rapprochement in Oil(1932) = 190
Two Kinds of Rebels(1933) = 192
Film Report(1933) = 194
The Anthem of Leuthen(1933) = 198
9. Reviews after 1933 = 201
The Man of Aran(1934) = 201
Our Daily Bread(1935) = 203
Lost Horizon(1937) = 206
Sweet Girl and Film Art(1939) = 208
Anti-Fascist Satire(1940) = 211
10. Portraits = 216
Greta Garbo(1928) = 216
Grete Mosheim(1931) = 217
Rudolf Forster(1931) = 218
Albert Pr$$e'$$jean(1931) = 219
Hans Alberts(1931) = 220
Felix Bressart(1931) = 221
Chaplin as Teacher(1932) = 222
Erich von Stroheim(1934) = 223
To Maya Deren(1962) = 227
Chronology = 231
Complete Bibliography of Writings on Film by Rudolf Arnheim / Helmut H. Diederichs Compiled. = 233
Index = 249
