Contents -- Introduction -- 1. LATE WILHELMINE GERMANY -- Artists, Critics, and Scholars -- The Theater of the Little People -- Art at the Cinema -- An Abyss Not to Be Bridged -- Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema -- Cinema and the Desire to Watch -- Film and I -- War Films -- From On the Sociology of the Cinema -- 2. WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1918-33 -- Writers, Critics, and Artists -- An Expressionist Film -- American Cinema -- The Substitute for Dreams -- The Bankruptcy of German Film -- The Artistic Composition of the Film Drama -- The Ideal Picture Needs No Titles: By Its Very Nature the Art of the Screen Should Tell a Complete Story Pictorially -- Theorists -- From The Visible Human -- The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies -- From The Three Penny Trial: A Sociological Experiment -- From Film -- 3. NAZI GERMANY 1933-45- AND THOSE WHO FLED. . . . -- Artists and Bureaucrats in the "Third Reich" -- Dr. Goebbels's Speech at the Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933 -- May the Strength and Beauty of Youth Have Found Cinematic Form -- History and Film -- The Formative Power of Film -- Gratitude toward the Theater -- Intellectuals in Exile -- The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception -- Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Film -- Introduction to The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt -- 4. POSTWAR GERMANY: 1945 TO THE PRESENT -- Film Artists -- A Letter to the Central Military Commander of the Soviet Occupation Zone -- Every Audience, as Everybody Knows, Has the Films It Deserves -- THE OBERHAUSEN MANIFESTO -- What Do the "Oberhauseners" Want? -- A Reflection: Befouling Our Own Nest? -- That's Entertainment: Hitler -- Feminism and Film -- On the Possibilities of Socialist Film Art: Reactions to Mama, I'm Alive -- From The Third Generation.

THE MANIFESTO OF THE WOMEN FILM WORKERS -- Women's Films Are Searches for Traces -- DEFA: A Personal View -- Critics, Scholars, and Theorists -- On German Postwar Film -- Transparencies on Film -- Ex-Changing the Gaze: Re-Visioning Feminist Film Theory -- Melodrama and Social Drama in the Early German Cinema -- The Indivisible Legacy of Nazi Cinema -- Bibliography: Primary Sources.