The war at home. The wounded soldier
The spirit of 1914
Film and nation
The battle of images
A medium for deception
The new empire
Mental breakdowns
Tales from the asylum. War neurotics
Recovering the past
Phantoms and freaks
From Dr. Charcot to Dr. Caligari
Madness as resistance
The Hitler connection
Shattered space
The return of the undead. The lost generation
Mass death
Dracula revisited
A community under siege
Hysteria on the home front
The allure of the occult
The work of mourning
Myth, murder, and revenge. The national project
Posing for Germany
The will to form
The fallen hero
Excursus: Lang in World War I
The sacred battle
The end of violence
The industrial battlefield. Rise of the machines
Moloch war
Lang's America
The hunger for religion
The workers' revolt
Destruction and regeneration
Aftershocks
Conclusion.