Sophia Brown: The Value of Pessimism
Stills and music from the English language version of Josef von Sternberg’s Blue Angel (1930)
Writes Professor Robert Gerst:
In “The Value of Pessimism” written for Film History, Sophia Brown (’18) analyzes Josef von Sternberg’s Blue Angel (1930) and Fritz Lang’s M (1931). She explains why Weimar era Germany audiences (and maybe all of us) valued movies that regard human behavior with a dark and brooding eye.
