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The aim of the work is to provide a comprehensive presentation and systematic classification of the development of German-language film theory up to the First World War. With the cinema reformers (educators and lawyers), the literary intelligentsia (writers and feature journalists) and the authors of the specialized cinema press, the three main groups that participated in the fierce and above all extensive debate on the new mass medium and artistic means of film in the years from 1907 onwards are named. The study concentrates on the specific film-theoretical side of the pre-war discussions, the film-aesthetic theory, understood as a process of increasing awareness of the cinematic means of design, the cinematic forms, the "film language". Developmental models of film form in film-historical practice and the form-aesthetic theory of film provide the work with its categorical and systematic framework.
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Germany
Film history
Film theory
Film aesthetics
History1907-1914
Cinema reform
Media education