What Films and in Which Cinemas Would Eberhard Mock Have Watched? Cinema Theatres and Their Programming in Weimar and Nazi Breslau
Konrad Klejsa
konrad.klejsa@interia.plUniversity of Lodz (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-9173
Abstract
In his book Nowoczesność, rozrywka, propaganda. Historia kina we Wrocławiu w latach 1919-1945 [Modernity, Entertainment, Propaganda: History of Cinema in Wrocław in the Years 1919-1945] (2019), Andrzej Dębski offers a multi-layered analysis of cinema culture in Breslau in the interwar period and during World War II. Volume I of the monograph focuses on movie theatres – their architecture and owners, whereas in Volume II the attention shifts to cinema programming and film audiences. While the reviewer is critical of the structure of Dębski’s book, he appreciates the meticulousness of research. In particular, Dębski’s use of John Sedgwick’s POPSTAT method proved to be fruitful in demonstrating the similarities and differences between the programming in Breslau’s cinemas and nationwide box-office results in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
Keywords:
Weimar cinema, Third Reich cinema, Wrocław, BreslauReferences
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Konrad Klejsakonrad.klejsa@interia.pl
University of Lodz Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-9173
Professor at the Chair of Film and Audio-Visual Media at University of Lodz. His research interests focus on the history of post-1945 Polish cinema, Polish-German film relationships, and audience studies. Currently he supervises the research project Film distribution and exhibition in Poland, 1945-1989, funded by the Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Polish National Science Centre).
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