Expressionism in the Cinema / / Olaf Brill, Gary D Rhodes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Brill, Olaf,; Rhodes, Gary D,
• MitwirkendeR: Brill, Olaf,; Choe, Steve,; Cuff, Paul,; Elsaesser, Thomas,; Guffey, Robert,; Harper, Graeme,; Hogan, David J.,; Kappes, Mirjam,; McCarron, Bernard,; Rafaelic, Daniel,; Rhodes, Gary D.,; Singer, Robert,; Sipiora, Phillip,; Soister, John T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

From classical to contemporary narratives, this book redefines the expressionist aestheticOne of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film history and aesthetics. The fifteen essays in this anthology remedies this by revisiting key German films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922), and also provides original critical research into more obscure titles like Nerven (1919) and The Phantom Carriage (1921), films that were produced in the silent and early sound era in countries ranging from France, Sweden and Hungary, to the United States and Mexico.An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in the 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.Contributors Steve Choe, University of IowaPaul Cuff, University of WarwickThomas Elsaesser, University of AmsterdamRobert Guffey, California State University-Long BeachGraeme Harper, Oakland University (Michigan)David J. Hogan, Independent ScholarMirjam Kappes, Independent ScholarBernard McCarron, Independent ScholarDaniel Rafaelic, Independent ScholarRobert Singer, CUNY Graduate CenterPhilip Sipiora, University of South FloridaJohn Soister, Independent Scholar

Table of 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