Possessed : hypnotic crimes, corporate fiction, and the invention of cinema / Stefan Andriopoulos ; translated by Peter Jansen and Stefan Andriopoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andriopoulos, Stefan.

Series:

Cinema and modernity.

Cinema and modernity

Standardized Title:

Besessene Körper. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hypnotism in motion pictures.

Hypnotism in literature.

Hypnotism and crime.

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

Corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over spellbound audiences. Stefan Andriopoulos shows that all this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was no marginal oddity, but rather a pervasive concern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing this preoccupation through the period's films-as well as its legal, medical, and literary te

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. TALES OF HYPNOTIC CRIME

II. INVISIBLE CORPORATE BODIES

III. STAGING THE HYPNOTIC CRIME

IV. BERNHEIM, CALIGARI, MABUSE: CINEMA AND HYPNOTISM

V. HUMAN AND CORPORATE BODIES IN BROCH AND KAFKA

EPILOGUE

APPENDIX A. FILMOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Translated from the German.

Includes filmography: p. [163]-170.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-202) and index.

ISBN:

9786611959036

9781281959034

1281959030

9780226020570

0226020576

OCLC:

476228948