1. Imagining Technological Art: Early German Film Theory

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: Special Effects and the Techno-Romantic Paradigm 9
5. 1. Imagining Technological Art: Early German Film Theory 33
6. 2. Modern Magicians: Guido Seeber and Eugen Schüfftan 67
7. 3. The Uncanny Mirror: Der Student von Prag (1913) 113
8. 4. Visualizing the Occult: Nosferatu (1922) 145
9. 5. The Technological Sublime: Metropolis (1927) 185
10. 6. “German Technique” and Hollywood 227
11. Conclusion: Techno-Romantic Cinema from the Silent to the Digital Era 273
12. Bibliography 279
13. Index 309