ReFocus : : The Films of Paul Leni / / Martin F. Norden, Erica Tortolani.
Offers the first comprehensive English-language book on the life and career of Paul LeniCovers many dimensions of Leni's professional creativity, including his early visual and theatrical work in Germany during the 1910s, collaborations with contemporary filmmakers, career in and experiment...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 26 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Exploding the Cosmopolitan and Treating the Foreigners’ Foreignness: Paul Leni’s The Diary of Dr. Hart
- 3 The Unnatural in the Natural: Leopold Jessner and Paul Leni’s Early Weimar Film Backstairs
- 4 Cinema Panopticum: Wax, Work, Waxworks
- 5 The Proto-Horror-Comedy: Waxworks
- 6 Intersectional Avant-Garde: Paul Leni’s Rebus-Film Series and the Confluence of Experimental Visual Styles
- 7 Bravura Beginnings: Paul Leni and the Art of the Prologue
- 8 Paul Leni’s The Cat and the Canary: Adaptation into Genre
- 9 Specters of the Mind: Ghosts, Illusion, and Exposure in Paul Leni’s The Cat and the Canary
- 10 Misfitting in America: Paul Leni, Conrad Veidt, and The Man Who Laughs
- 11 Masculinity and Facial Disfigurement in The Man Who Laughs
- 12 Cinematic Space and Set Design in Paul Leni’s The Last Warning
- 13 The Last Warning: Uncertainty, Exploitation, and Horror
- Filmography
- Index