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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Calhoon, Kenneth S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: German and European Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 54 b&w illustrations

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.

Table of 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