Nosferatu Shepard Jim
Nosferatu Shepard Jim From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his…
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Nosferatu Shepard Jim
From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu. Murnau (1888-1931).
What shadows Jim Shepard's Murnau--through the airfields of the Great War to Berlin in the twenties and to the virtual invention of filmmaking--is the conflict between his impossibly high ideals and his heartbreaking memories of love betrayed and love lost. Here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. From provincial Germany through Hollywood in its early days to the South Seas, Nosferatu charts a life at once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human.
Ron Hansen provides an introduction to this Bison Books