Expressionist film : new perspectives / edited by Dietrich Scheunemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheunemann, Dietrich.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History.

Motion pictures.

Germany.

History.

Expressionism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY ; Woodbridge, UK : Camden House, 2003.

Summary:

New essays by leading scholars give a fresh picture of the wide variety of German expressionist film. Some of the films covered include The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Nosferatu, The Golem, and Waxworks, along with directors like Murnau, Lang, and Lubitsch.

Contents:

Activating the differences : expressionist film and early Weimar cinema / Dietrich Scheunemann

Weimar cinema, mobile selves, and anxious males : Kracauer and Eisner revisited / Thomas Elsaesser

Revolution, power, and desire in Ernst Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry / Marc Silberman

"Bringing the ghostly to life" : Fritz Lang and his early Dr. Mabuse films / Norbert Grob

Murnau, a conservative filmmaker? : on film history as intellectual history / Thomas Koebner

The double, the décor, and the framing device : once more on Robert Wiene's The cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Dietrich Scheunemann

Film as graphic art : on Karl Heinz Martin's From morn to midnight / Jürgen Kasten

Episodic patchwork : the bric-à-brac principle in Paul Leni's Waxworks / Jürgen Kasten

Entrapment and escape : readings of the city in Karl Grune's The street and G.W. Pabst's The joyless street / Anthony Coulson

Fragmenting the space : on E.A. Dupont's Varieté / Thomas Brandlmeier

On Murnau's Faust : a generic Gesamtkunstwerk? / Helmut Schanze

"Painting in time" and "visual music" : on German avant-garde films of the 1920s / Walter Schobert

Ruttmann, rhythm, and "reality" : a response to Siegfried Kracauer's interpretation of Berlin, the symphony of a great city / David Macrae.

Notes:

"The present volume is the first outcome of a joint research project carried out by the Centre for European Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Film Studies at the University of Mainz, and the German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-288) and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

1571130683

OCLC:

51543671