The Long Century’s Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern

"The study would be of interest to advanced scholars of Weimar cinema well-read in the German and European aesthetic traditions of the nineteenth century. Its richness demands a patient reader, but one who will no doubt be left inspired by what comparative media studies affords to cinema studies."

Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia, EuropeNow

"Drawing on various Romantic texts including paintings, poetry, and prose, as well as expressionist Weimar cinema, Calhoun grounds his interpretations of the marriage between German Romanticism and works of expressionist cinema … This volume is recommended for both advanced students and scholars working in the field of Weimar cinema and Germanic studies."

Barbara Hales, University of Houston-Clear Lake, German Quarterly

“This volume is recommended for both advanced students and scholars working in the field of Weimar cinema and Germanic studies.” Barbara Hales, University of Houston-Clear Lake, German Quarterly

"The Long Century’s Long Shadow is a book that stays with one well after reading it. A luminous, fascinating, and deeply researched examination of the entwinement of Romanticism and modernism in German cinema of the Weimar period; Calhoon brings aesthetic intensity, historical range, and cinematic detail back into our understanding of the overall picture."

Keya Ganguly, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota

"Contrasting Weimar film classics with rigorous and wide-ranging interpretations of poetry, literature, painting, and sculpture spanning from Caspar David Friedrich to Disney’s Fantasia, The Long Century’s Long Shadow provides a highly original approach to German cultural history."

Gerd Gemünden, Sherman Fairchild Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College