The WeimarCinema website is a scholarly, online archive for the research and teaching of Weimar film in its historical and theoretical contexts. If you have any interest in German movies (think Nosferatu, Metropolis, etc...) of the inter-war period (here 1918 - 1933), then you will want to check out this really interesting site. Its url, appropriately, is WeimarCinema.org.
The WeimarCinema website contains various resources as well as information about related publications and restorations. There are also a smattering of essays on topics like G.W. Pabst, expressionism, Babylon Berlin, early queer cinema, and more.
The site's primary asset is its growing collection of film dossiers, groupings of pages which collect "historical materials that reconstruct the cultural milieu in which a given film was made and first reviewed. It also illuminates the film’s afterlives including contemporary appropriations in various media."
Earlier this month, the site posted a film dossier on Die Büchse der Pandora (aka Pandora's Box). It is authored by Shoshana Schwebel, a scholar at the University of British Columbia. Besides being a major addition to Weimar cinema scholarship, this dossier is something every fan of Pandora's Box or Louise Brooks will want to check out. This dossier, like the others, contains lightly illustrated sections (or chapters) on "Production and Restoration", "Historical Essays and Reviews", "Concepts and Constellations", "Related Films", "Afterlives", and "Readings". There are also links to all manner or resources scattered across the web.
I was in touch with the author some months ago, and helped where I could. The Pandora's Box dossier contains a number of citations and references not only to my writings on Louise Brooks, but also to the Louise Brooks Society website -- especially its dossier pages on Pandora's Box.
I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on WeimarCinema website page on Pandora's Box.
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