The Weimar revolution and German collaborative filmmaking -- The optical convergence of Theodor Sparkuhl and Ernst Lubitsch -- Karl Freund's signature visual designs in manifold collaborations -- Carl Hoffmann and the new visual discourse of German silent film -- Fritz Arno Wagner, With F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and Arthur Robison -- Fritz Arno Wagner, G. W. Pabst, and the Weimar zeitgeist -- Günther Rittau, Günther Krampf, optical language, and autonomous collaborative agency -- Guido Seeber's promotion from special effects technician to cinematographic artist -- Rudolph Maté, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the framing principle of cinematography -- Cinematographers as directors as cinematographers and the rebirth of civilization -- Filmograph. |