Download or read book Shell Shock Cinema written by Anton Kaes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Shell Shock Cinema' shows how classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I & the trauma of Germany's humiliating defeat. Anton Kaes argues that even films which do not depict war reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock.