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> I would appreciate anyone providing me with references as to books,
> articles, websites, etc. that will help me gain some good background on
> F.W. Murnau's *Sunrise.*  Thanks in advance.
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> Ron Hoffman
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check out robert allen's interesting contextualization of *sunrise*'s
production and critical reception in relation to u.s. discourses on german
aesthetics and filmmaking in the 1920s.  robert allen and douglas gomery,
film history: theory and practice (new york: mcgraw-hill, 1985): 91-108.
this work will also have a useful bibliographical citations in the notes on
pages 107-8.
 
also lotte eisner's chapter on *sunrise* in her monograph on murnau is quite
useful.  this work is simply entitled, murnau, and the english language
edition came out in 1973.
 
mark lynn anderson
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