Crime and Melodrama in the 1920s: Varieté (1925) and Beggars of Life (1928)
While Ewald André Dupont’s Varieté (Variety, 1925) and William A. Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928)...
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Tag: silent film
Barbarous Desire: The Sheik (1921) and The Son of the Sheik (1926)
“Her exultant dream of freedom ended—a helpless captive in the desert wastes.” —The Sheik The...
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Surveillance, Performance, Terror: Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
The January 1919 death of socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is often read by postwar...
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Diabolique Print & Digital
Daughters of Darkness
Hell’s Belles
Busted Guts: Cracking Open Comedy Cinema
