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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| 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.