Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: CITY GIRL

This small monograph on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's beautiful film "City Girl" (1930)—written in German—is the first in-depth study of the last Hollywood movie of the German silent-era director. I show that the film has been unduly neglected by film critics and scholars alike and that "City Girl" is deeply interwoven with public debates of the late 1920s and 30s such as the financial hardships at the onset of the Great Depression, the rejection of city life and a yearning for the countryside, the role of women in the aftermath of the world economic crisis and the polemics against the American farmer. It is a film that still resonates in our times