Adrian Gerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 6701444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Gerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerber |
| SIGNATURE | GERBER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Independent Studies Zürich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Camera negatives, releases, and versions of Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms (1918)
The essay presents the latest research results on Charles Chaplin’s wartime comedy Shoulder Arms (1918). It provides background information on the production of the film, describes the different camera negatives produced in 1918, and traces their uses for different releases. There were four different negatives (A, B, C, and D) and six official releases (First National domestic first release 1918–1923, international first release beginning in 1918…
The battle for meaning
This article offers a cross-national analysis of the historical reception of the American war film The Battle Cry of Peace (J. Stuart Blackton and Wilfred North/Vitagraph, 1915) in the neutral countries of the Netherlands and Switzerland during World War I. Treating propaganda as a mode de lecture, the authors demonstrate how a fiction film that was originally intended as preparedness propaganda picked up very diverse and often conflicting meanin…
"Communalism" in Japan
This article seeks to make a contribution to comparative history at the level of interpretative concepts. The argument is that the concept of provides a lens that is useful for the examination of Japanese history, even as the application of the concept to Japanese material discloses questions that might usefully be pursued by historians of communalism in Europe. In its original historiographical setting (Upper Germany in the late medieval and ear…
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"Communalism" in Japan
This article seeks to make a contribution to comparative history at the level of interpretative concepts. The argument is that the concept of provides a lens that is useful for the examination of Japanese history, even as the application of the concept to Japanese material discloses questions that might usefully be pursued by historians of communalism in Europe. In its original historiographical setting (Upper Germany in the late medieval and ear…
The battle for meaning
This article offers a cross-national analysis of the historical reception of the American war film The Battle Cry of Peace (J. Stuart Blackton and Wilfred North/Vitagraph, 1915) in the neutral countries of the Netherlands and Switzerland during World War I. Treating propaganda as a mode de lecture, the authors demonstrate how a fiction film that was originally intended as preparedness propaganda picked up very diverse and often conflicting meanin…
Camera negatives, releases, and versions of Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms (1918)
The essay presents the latest research results on Charles Chaplin’s wartime comedy Shoulder Arms (1918). It provides background information on the production of the film, describes the different camera negatives produced in 1918, and traces their uses for different releases. There were four different negatives (A, B, C, and D) and six official releases (First National domestic first release 1918–1923, international first release beginning in 1918…
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