Shell shock cinema : Weimar culture and the wounds of war /

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Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaes, Anton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Temas:
1900-1999
Motion pictures > Germany > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Motion pictures and the war.
World War, 1914-1918 > Influence.
Silent films > Germany > History and criticism.
War and motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.
Cinéma > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Influence.
Films muets > Allemagne > Histoire et critique.
Traumatisme psychique au cinéma.
Culture au cinéma.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
ART > Film & Video.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Motion pictures.
Silent films.
Germany.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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