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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaes, Anton.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Silent films.

Germany.

History.

World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

War and motion pictures.

World War, 1914-1918--Influence.

Silent films--Germany--History and criticism.

Psychic trauma in motion pictures.

Culture in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691031361

0691031363

OCLC:

282966375