1. GermanY 1918-1933: A People in crisis

2. The German Trenches

3. Kaiser Wilhelm II

4. The “Victory Deception”

7. British Naval Blockade of Germany

9. The German navy mutiny rather than be forced to confront the British and be slaughtered. This fosters a sense of seething anger among the German people.

11. German Surrender: 11AM on 11/11/18 Cessation of Fighting Withdrawal of German Troops from Foreign Territories Exchange of Prisoners Demolition of German Warships & Submarines REPARATIONS

12. Hyperinflation (1921-1924)

15. Dresden 1905

16. Edvard Munch’s The Scream... A major influence

17. EXPRESSIONISM: a style of painting, music, film, or drama in which the artist attempts to communicate emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world

18. Emil Nolde’s Masks (1911) (watercolor)

19. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Berlin Street Scene (1913)

20. Franz Marc’s Fate of the Animals (1913)... Marc died in battle the very next year

22. Robert Weine’s The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)

23. G. W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929)

24. Advertisement for Paul Wegener’s Der Golem (1920)

25. Josef Von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel (1930)

26. Oneiricism... The Nightmarish Vision

27. “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” ― Sigmund Freud

28. What is Munch saying here?

29. Chiaroscuro : the purposeful use of light and shadow in a work of art

30. F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922)

31. The Femme Fatale

32. from Fritz Lang’s M (1931)

33. Geometrical Absurdity

34. How do the geometrics in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis reflect the nature of the city?

36. Most Common Themes in WC...

37. Madness

38. Betrayal

39. 1933

40. Hollywood

41. Money and Safety

42. And... The Birth of Film Noir to be continued...