Introduction / Richard W. McCormick, Alison Guenther-Pal -- Late Wilhelmine Germany -- Artists, Critics, and Scholars -- The Theater of the Little People / Alfred Doblin -- Art at the Cinema / Herbert Tannenbaum -- An Abyss Not to Be Bridged / Malwine Rennert -- Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema / Georg Lukacs -- Cinema and the Desire to Watch / Walter Serner -- Film and I / Hanns Heinz Ewers -- War Films / Malwine Rennert -- From On the Sociology of the Cinema / Emilie Altenloh -- Weimar Republic, 1918-33 -- Writers, Critics, and Artists -- An Expressionist Film / Herbert Ihering -- American Cinema / Claire Goll -- The Substitute for Dreams / Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- The Bankruptcy of German Film / Carl Einstein -- The Artistic Composition of the Film Drama / Fritz Lang -- The Ideal Picture Needs No Titles: By Its Very Nature the Art of the Screen Should Tell a Complete Story Pictorially / F.W. Murnau -- Theorists -- From The Visible Human / Bela Balazs -- The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies / Siegfried Kracauer -- From The Three Penny Trial: A Sociological Experiment / Bertolt Brecht -- From Film / Rudolf Arnheim -- Nazi Germany 1933-45--And Those Who Fled ... -- Artists and Bureaucrats in the "Third Reich" -- Dr. Goebbels's Speech at the Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933 / Joseph Goebbels -- May the Strength and Beauty of Youth Have Found Cinematic Form / Leni Riefenstahl -- History and Film / Veit Harlan -- The Formative Power of Film / Fritz Hippler -- Gratitude toward the Theater / Helmut Kautner.