The Film Explainer
It is the early 1930s in Limbach, an industrial village suffering from the depression. Karl Hofmann narrates silent movies at the local cinema. The job pays poorly and is largely unnecessary, as the films have subtitles and the crowds are small, but Karl sees himself as an artist: he is convinced only his explanation will make the movies accessible to the ever-shrinking audience. When the "talkies" arrive and he loses his job after a quarrel...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0810112930
ISBN13:9780810112933
Release Date:June 1996
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:250 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"
Customer Reviews
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This book deserves more attention
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This book has so much to recommend it. The really outstanding thing is the child narrator's voice - it's always exactly appropriate to the child's purported age. Nothing precocious - only what the child could really know and say.
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