Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - Lucy Fisher (BFI Film Classics)

'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans' by Lucy Fisher

In 1927 German director F.W. Murnau went to the United States to create this masterpiece of early cinema. Fisher's study looks at how the film occupies spaces between seemingly opposing positions such as the avant-garde and the popular. She also examines its place as an historically pivotal film.