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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kaes, Anton
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
War and motion pictures.
Silent films.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Culture in motion pictures.
ART > Film & Video.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Culture au cinema.
Traumatisme psychique au cinema.
Films muets > Allemagne > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Influence.
Cinema > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Silent films > Germany > History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918 > Influence.
World War, 1914-1918 > Motion pictures and the war.
Motion pictures > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germany.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not depict battle scenes or soldiers in combat, engaged the war and registered its tragic aftermath. These films reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock, reeling from a devastating defeat that it never officially acknowledged, let alone accepted. Kae.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (328 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400831197

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