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The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 Edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan University of California Press, $65
Beginning not with the birth of film but the birth of film writing, The Promise of Cinema offers an invaluable compendium of critical and theoretical texts-originally published in journals, newspapers, and magazines in Germany and Austria-that span the prewar period up to the rise of National Socialism. Some of the selections appeared in Anton Kaes's pioneering...