Steve Choe is Associate Professor of CInema at San Francisco State University, USA.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Two Postwar Masculinities Robert Reinert’s Nerves (1919)Chapter Two: Melancholy Specters F. W. Murnau’s The Haunted Castle (1921) and Phantom (1922)Chapter Three: The Temporality of Destiny Fritz Lang’s Destiny (1921)Chapter Four: The Cinematic Other Paul Wegener’s The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)Chapter Five: Technologies of Vengeance Fritz Lang’s The Nibelungen (1924) and Arthur Robison’s Warning Shadows (1923)Conclusion NotesBibliography Filmography

Steve Choe's book makes an important and original contribution to the study of Weimar film in its cultural and intellectual historical contexts. He arranges revealing and stimulating critical encounters between ideas of life and death circulating at the time and a series of films, both canonical and less familiar.

Steve Choe is Associate Professor of CInema at San Francisco State University, USA.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Two Postwar Masculinities Robert Reinert’s Nerves (1919)Chapter Two: Melancholy Specters F. W. Murnau’s The Haunted Castle (1921) and Phantom (1922)Chapter Three: The Temporality of Destiny Fritz Lang’s Destiny (1921)Chapter Four: The Cinematic Other Paul Wegener’s The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)Chapter Five: Technologies of Vengeance Fritz Lang’s The Nibelungen (1924) and Arthur Robison’s Warning Shadows (1923)Conclusion NotesBibliography Filmography

Steve Choe's book makes an important and original contribution to the study of Weimar film in its cultural and intellectual historical contexts. He arranges revealing and stimulating critical encounters between ideas of life and death circulating at the time and a series of films, both canonical and less familiar.

Steve Choe is Associate Professor of CInema at San Francisco State University, USA.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Two Postwar Masculinities Robert Reinert’s Nerves (1919)Chapter Two: Melancholy Specters F. W. Murnau’s The Haunted Castle (1921) and Phantom (1922)Chapter Three: The Temporality of Destiny Fritz Lang’s Destiny (1921)Chapter Four: The Cinematic Other Paul Wegener’s The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)Chapter Five: Technologies of Vengeance Fritz Lang’s The Nibelungen (1924) and Arthur Robison’s Warning Shadows (1923)Conclusion NotesBibliography Filmography

Steve Choe's book makes an important and original contribution to the study of Weimar film in its cultural and intellectual historical contexts. He arranges revealing and stimulating critical encounters between ideas of life and death circulating at the time and a series of films, both canonical and less familiar.