caa a22 4500 378942573 CHVBK 20180305123656.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040722xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.261 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.261 Haase Donald 1. Detroit. The Arabian Nights, Visual Culture, and Early German Cinema [Elektronische Daten] [Donald Haase] This paper focuses on two cultural developments in Germany and their intersection in the period from 1880 to 1935. One of these developments is the robust reception of the Arabian Nights in print. The other is the emergence of visual culture in the form of motion pictures. The paper shows how the literary reception of the Arabian Nights as a visual experience can help explain why filmmakers like Ernst Lubitsch (Sumurun, 1920), Fritz Lang (Der müde Tod, 1921), and Paul Leni (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett, 1924) adapted the content and narrative structure of the Arabian Nights in their cinematic work. © Walter de Gruyter Literary studies: general nationallicence Literary theory nationallicence Novels, other prose & writers nationallicence Fabula Walter de Gruyter 45/3-4(2004-07-22), 261-274 0014-6242 45:3-4<261 2004 45 fabl https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.261 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.261 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Haase Donald 1. Detroit NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Fabula Walter de Gruyter 45/3-4(2004-07-22), 261-274 0014-6242 45:3-4<261 2004 45 fabl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter