Expressionism in the cinema / edited by Olaf Brill and Gary D. Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brill, Olaf, Author.

Contributor:

Brill, Olaf, 1967- editor.

Rhodes, Gary Don, 1972- editor.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema.

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Expressionism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in Cinema re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic, extending the critical and historical discussion beyond pre-existing scholarship into comparative and interdisciplinary areas of film research that reach across national boundaries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Traditions in World Cinema

Introduction

PART I. EXPRESSIONISM IN GERMAN CINEMA

1. Expressionist Cinema—Style and Design in Film History

2. Of Nerves and Men: Postwar Delusion and Robert Reinert’s Nerven

3. Franjo Ledic: A Forgotten Pioneer of German Expressionism

4. Expressionist Film and Gender: Genuine, A Tale of a Vampire (1920)

5. “The Secrets of Nature and Its Unifying Principles”: Nosferatu (1922) and Jakob von Uexküll on Umwelt

6. Raskolnikow (1923): Russian Literature as Impetus for German Expressionism

PART II. EXPRESSIONISM IN GLOBAL CINEMA

7. The Austrian Connection: The Frame Story and Insanity in Paul Czinner’s Inferno (1919) and Fritz Freisler’s The Mandarin (1918)

8. “The Reawakening of French Cinema”: Expression and Innovation in Abel Gance’s J’accuse (1919)

9. Here Among the Dead: The Phantom Carriage (1921) and the Cinema of the Occulted Taboo

10. Drakula halála (1921): The Cinema’s First Dracula

11. Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine’s clin d’oeil to German Expressionism

12. Nietzsche’s Fingerprints on The Hands of Orlac (1924)

13. “True, Nervous”: American Expressionist Cinema and the Destabilized Male

14. Dos monjes (1934) and the Tortured Search for Truth

15. Maya Deren in Person in Expressionism

Index of Names

Index of Film Titles

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Sep 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474403269

1474403263

OCLC:

1301548408