Artikel,
Through the Looking-Glass: Lotte H. Eisner and Éric Rohmer on Murnau
Screen, 62 (3): 390-399 (Oktober 2021)
DOI: 10.1093/screen/hjab036
Zusammenfassung
Lotte Eisner was a woman of many talents: a writer, archivist and curator who could draw on wide-ranging interests and a stupendous knowledge that went far beyond film history into other, varied fields of culture, including literature and philosophy, theatre and architecture, music and the visual arts. The three books she wrote on the history of the cinema – The Haunted Screen first published in French in 1952, and her books on F. W. Murnau from 1964 and Fritz Lang from 1974 – reflect this range of expertise. While all three books are primarily conceived as studies in visual composition and film style and thus betray Eisner’s art-historical training, they differ in instructive ways with regard to how she approaches each project.
