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Possessed : hypnotic crimes, corporate fiction, and the invention of cinema /

Silent cinema explored themes of mesmerism, possession and corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics were accusing film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over its audience. This book shows that this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was a per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Andriopoulos, Stefan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Colección:Cinema and modernity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Index; I TALES OF HYPNOTIC CRIME; II INVISIBLE CORPORATE BODIES; III STAGING THE HYPNOTIC CRIME; IV BERNHEIM, CALIGARI, MABUSE: CINEMA AND HYPNOTISM; V HUMAN AND CORPORATE BODIES IN BROCH AND KAFKA; Epilogue; Appendix A. Filmography; Bibliography.