Book presentation: Dreams and Extremes. The Cultural History of Early Cinema

Klaus Kreimeier's book Dreams and Extremes. The Cultural History of Early Cinema puts the spotlight on early cinema culture in Europe and the USA in the context of the upheavals between the Belle Époque and industrialized war. The establishment of the cinema around 1900 took place at a time marked by an incomparable surge of modernization. Industrialization, urbanization and mass consumption changed living habits and sensual experiences. The cinema created the foundations for the modern media realities that revealed themselves over the 20th century and went on to conquer new dimensions with digital technologies. The "universal language" of the moving image cristallized itself. (Klaus Kreimeier). Klaus Kreimeier's lecture will be accompanied by a program of four shorts from 1905 to 1913.

A Deutsche Kinemathek event in cooperation with Paul Zsolnay Verlag. (10.1.)