Expressionism in the cinema

Expressionism in the cinema

by Brill, Olaf Rhodes, Gary Don

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An innovative and wide-ranging collection, this book re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic, extending the critical and historical discussion beyond pre-existing scholarship into comparative and interdisciplinary areas of film research that reach across national boundaries.--Publisher's description.

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  • Full title :Expressionism in the cinema / edited by Olaf Brill and Gary D. Rhodes.

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An innovative and wide-ranging collection, this book re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic, extending the critical and historical discussion beyond pre-existing scholarship into comparative and interdisciplinary areas of film research that reach across national boundaries.--Publisher's description.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2016

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xvi, 312 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1474403255, 9781474403252, 9781474425872, 1474425879
  • oclc:ocn914326342
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.E965
  • Dewey Decimal:791.436115

Table of Contents

Part I. Expressionism in German cinema. Expressionist cinema: style and design in film history / Thomas Elsaesser -- Of nerves and men: postwar delusion and Robert Reinert's Nerven / Steve Choe -- Franjo Ledić: a forgotten pioneer of German Expressionism / Daniel Rafaelić -- Expressionist film and gender: Genuine, A Tale of a Vampire (1920) / Mirjam Kappes -- "The secrets of nature and its unifying principles": Nosferatu (1922) and Jakob von Uexküll on Umwelt / Steve Choe -- Raskolnikow (1923): Russian literature as impetus for German Expressionism / John T. Soister.

Part II. Expressionism in global cinema. The Austrian connection: the frame story and insanity in Paul Czinner's Inferno (1919) and Fritz Freisler's The Mandarin (1918) / Olaf Brill -- "The reawakening of French cinema": expression and innovation in Abel Gance's J'accuse! (1919) / Paul Cuff -- Here among the dead: The Phantom Carriage (1921) and the cinema of the occulted taboo / Robert Guffey -- Drakula halála (1921): the cinema's first Dracula / Gary D. Rhodes -- Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine's clind'œil to German Expressionism / Bernard McCarron -- Nietzsche's fingerprints on The Hands of Orlac (1924) …

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Subjects

Expressionism in motion pictures Expressionnisme (Cinéma)

Writers

Brill, Olaf Rhodes, Gary Don

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