Expressionism in the Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474425872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 296 str.

Gary D. Rhodes

Opis

An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in Cinema 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.

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Acknowledgements; Editors’ Introduction; Section 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; Section 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 rewakening 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), Phillip Sipiora; ‘True, Nervous’: American Expressionist Cinema and the Destabilized Male, Robert Singer; Dos monjes (1934) and the Tortured Search for Truth, David J. Hogan; Maya Deren in Person in Expressionism, Graeme Harper; Author Biographies; Index