Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index.
Includes filmography: pages 241-257.
Contents
The heart of reason: the beginnings of narrative cinema -- The femininity of men: comedy -- Reaction in the melodrama -- Excursus: Henny Porten, or, the realism of melodrama -- Contradictions of social drama -- Perspective "from below" or perspective "from outside": the detective film -- Uncanniness of the female gaze: sensational drama -- Crime and love in prewar drama, 1913-1914 -- Afterword.