The Long Century's Long Shadow : Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern / Kenneth S. Calhoon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calhoon, Kenneth Scott, 1956- author.

Series:

German and European studies.

German and European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures, German--History--20th century.

Motion pictures, German.

Romanticism--Germany.

Romanticism.

Art and motion pictures--Germany.

Art and motion pictures.

Motion pictures and literature--Germany.

Motion pictures and literature.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

"The Long Century's Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciprocal illumination. The author investigates different moments and media as connected phenomena, situated at alternate ends of the "long nineteenth century" but joined by their mutual rejection of the neo-classical aesthetic standard of placid and weightless poise in numerous media, including film, painting, sculpture, prose, poetry, and dance. Connecting Weimar filmmaking to Romantic thought and practice, Kenneth S. Calhoon offers a non-technological, aesthetic genealogy of cinema. He focuses on well-known literary and artistic works, including films such as Nosferatu, Metropolis, Frankenstein, and Fantasia; the writings of Conrad, Kafka, Goethe, and Novalis; and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the leading artists of German Romanticism. With an eye to the modernism of which Weimar filmmaking was a part, The Long Century's Long Shadow employs the Romantic landscape in poetry and painting as a mirror in which to regard cinema."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. The Turmoil of Forces

Chapter Two. Under the Sign of Insomnia

Chapter Three. Nightwatching

Chapter Four. A Pause in the Action

Chapter Five. Facing the Image

Chapter Six. Necessary Advances

Chapter Seven. Music of the Third Kind: Fantasia and Faustus

Filmography

Notes

Works Cited

Index

GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-2697-0

1-4875-2696-2

OCLC:

1240180944