Paul Dobryden, "The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder"
English | ISBN: 0810144964 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 18 MB
This study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad attempts to create healthy spaces for life and work amid the pollution, disease, accidents, and noise of industrial modernity. Examining classic films-including The Last Laugh