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Michael Cowan

Author of The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

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Michael Cowan is Assistant Professor of German Studies at McGill University.

Works by Michael Cowan

The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (2016) — Editor — 7 copies

Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - Modernity (Film Culture in Transition) (2014) 4 copies

Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity (2008) 3 copies

Film Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-1933: Tracing the Social Life of Cinema (Film Culture in Transition) (2025) 3 copies

Wiltshire Water Meadows: Understanding and Conserving the Remains of a Farming and Engineering Revolution (2005) 2 copies

City of the West: Emerson, America, and Urban Metaphor 1 copy

The Letters of John Peniston, Salisbury architect, Catholic, and Yeomanry officder, 1823-1830 (1996) 1 copy

Harnham Mill: The Oldest Surviving Paper Mill in the Country (Sarum Studies) (2008) 1 copy

Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Sound and the Fury (1968) 1 copy

Technology's Pulse: Essays on Rhythm in German Modernism (Volume 5) (Institute of Modern Languages Research) (2011) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Merchant of Venice [2004 film] (2004) — Producer — 157 copies, 4 reviews

Being Considered [2000 film] (2000) — Producer — 1 copy

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SCMS Best Edited Collection

The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Honorable Mention – 2017)

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ISBNs: 13

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