Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity

Mason Kamana Allred is a historian and volume editor at the Joseph Smith Papers. His interdisciplinary work on film and media history has appeared in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Jewish Studies Quarterly, and The Journal of Popular Culture as well as the edited collections Dorian: A Peculiar Edition and Film and History.

• Introduction: Cinematic Historicity 1. Screening Pasts through Carnal Presence 2. Entangling Histories3. History Class at 16 fps 4. Clio in Crisis

"This book recovers Ernst Lubitsch’s important early historical films and shows how they provide insights into the ways in which cinematic experience has shaped historical experience to this day." -Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati