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Expressionism in the cinema /

From classical to contemporary narratives, this book redefines the expressionist aesthetic. One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film history and aesthetics. The fifteen essays in this anthology remed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brill, Olaf, 1967- (Editor ), Rhodes, Gary Don, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Colección:Traditions in world cinema.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 Ledic: a forgotten pioneer of German Expressionism / Daniel Rafaelic
  • 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 Uexkull 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 halala (1921): the cinema's first Dracula / Gary D. Rhodes
  • Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine's clind'il 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.