Archival Spaces 391 Monograph: People On Sunday Uploaded 23 January 2026 For years, I have been teaching a German film history course. One of the films I have consistently screened is Robert Siodmak’s Menschen am Sonntag/People on Sunday (1929), not only because it is my favorite film of the late Weimar Republic, but also becauseContinue reading “391: People On Sunday”
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387: Nazi Film History II
Archival Spaces 387: Otto Krieg’s German Film in the Mirror of the Ufa Uploaded 28 November 2025 By 1943, the Ufa was not only the largest German film company, as it had been in the Weimar Republic, but the only German film company, nationalized and under direct control of Joseph Goebbels’ Nazi Propaganda Ministry. InContinue reading “387: Nazi Film History II”
385: Tod Browning
Archival Spaces 385: Dark Carnival. The Secret World of Tod Browning Uploaded 31 October 2025 Beginning with D.W. Griffith, but certainly after the Supreme Court’s decision in Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio (1915), American film directors and studios were obsessively and aggressively optimistic in their depiction of an American imaginary. In thatContinue reading “385: Tod Browning”
377: Hans Feld
Archival Spaces 377: Hans Feld, Weimar Film Journalist Uploaded 11 July 2025 Hans Feld is probably the most well-known and prolific film journalist writing for Weimar Germany’s most widely read film industry publication, Film-Kurier, after Lotte Eisner. Hans Feld was born on 14 July 1902 in Berlin and died on the same day, his 90thContinue reading “377: Hans Feld”
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