From Expressionism to Hitler: German Cinema and World War II
Name:
From Expressionism to Hitler: German Cinema and World War II
Date:
April 9, 2017
Time:
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
Film Studies professor Michael Smith will talk about German Cinema at the Wilmette Public Library on April 9 at 2:00 p.m.
Event Description:
Film studies professor Michael Smith focuses on German cinema before, during, and after World War II. Clips screened include The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, and Germany Year Zero. This event is part of the Wilmette Public Library’s One Book, Everybody Reads program, which is featuring Affinity Konar’s Holocaust novel Mischling this spring.
The One Book series is funded by Friends of the Wilmette Public Library. Community partners for the 2017 One Book program include The Book Stall, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, The Klezmer Music Foundation, League of Women Voters of Wilmette, Make It Better, NS/Modern Luxury, Rotary Club of Wilmette, Sheridan Road, Unsilence, Village of Kenilworth, Village of Wilmette, Wilmette Beacon, Wilmette/Kenilworth Chamber of Commerce, Wilmette Harbor Rotary Club, Wilmette Life, and Wilmette Public Schools District 39.
The One Book series is funded by Friends of the Wilmette Public Library. Community partners for the 2017 One Book program include The Book Stall, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, The Klezmer Music Foundation, League of Women Voters of Wilmette, Make It Better, NS/Modern Luxury, Rotary Club of Wilmette, Sheridan Road, Unsilence, Village of Kenilworth, Village of Wilmette, Wilmette Beacon, Wilmette/Kenilworth Chamber of Commerce, Wilmette Harbor Rotary Club, Wilmette Life, and Wilmette Public Schools District 39.
