From Caligari to Hitler

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Great recommendation! I watched it last night. Has anyone read the book (though it's hard to see how well the material could be appreciated by the reader without viewing the clips)?

Laura

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From: gary webb 

Sent: Dec 31, 2015 1:57 AM

To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" 

Subject: From Caligari to Hitler



I watched a very interesting documentary on Netflix called From Caligari to Hitler, based on Siegfried Kracauer's book published in 1947. It is an interesting study on Wiemar Cinema, something no doubt Pynchon details in his Wiemar passages in Gravity's Rainbow. It no doubt chronicles the greats Murnau, Lang, Lubitsch... but also lesser knowns, and a sort-of evolution of style from Expressionism to New Objectivity. I've always found Pynchon's Franz and Leni Polker, their story, one of the most compelling in Gravity's Rainbow...
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