Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Zellmann Direct Marketing Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu A groundbreaking exploration of German expressionist cinema and technology. A CULTURE OF LIGHT: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany Frances Guerin University of Minnesota Press | 360 pages | 2005 ISBN 0-8166-4285-0 | hardcover | $74.95 ISBN 0-8166-4286-9 | paperback | $24.95 In Frances Guerin's history of German silent cinema of the 1920s, the use of light is the pivot around which a new national cinema and culture emerges. Guerin's interpretations center on use of light in films such as Metropolis (1926) and Der Golem (1920) and we see how light is the substance of image composition, the narrative structuring device, and the thematic concern. łA Culture of Light is a truly original book that will compel scholars of film studies to re-think the manner in which they approach the aesthetic and thematic development of the cinema in the first half of the twentieth century.˛ ‹Jack Zipes For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/guerin_culture.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]