Sunrise : a song of two humans
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Sunrise : a song of two humans
（BFI film classics）
BFI, 2020
[2020 ed.]
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"First published in 1998 by the British Film Institute" -- T.p. verso
"Foreword to the 2020 edition " -- p. 7
Bibliogrphy: p. 85-87
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film of the celebrated German director F.W. Murnau, Sunrise tells the story of a love triangle between characters named only as The Man, The Wife, and The Woman from the City.
Lucy Fischer's compelling study of the film shows how it mediates between German expressionism and American melodrama, the avantgarde and popular film, silent cinema and 'talkies'. A lavish and sumptuous production famous for its vast, specially-constructed sets, and one of the first feature films with a synchronized musical score and sound effects soundtrack, Sunrise was one of early Hollywood's most ambitious undertakings.
In her foreword to this new edition, Lucy Fischer considers the film as an abiding classic of world cinema.
Table of Contents
- Foreword to the 2020 Edition Acknowledgments 'Sunrise'
- Border Crossings Europe/America Film/Literature Silence/Sound City/Country The Madonna/The Whore Objective/Subjective Poetry/Narrative Stasis/Movement Painting/Cinema Classical/Modernist Surveyor/Surveyed Lost/Found Notes Credits Works Cited Bibliography
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