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Shell Shock Cinema : Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.