Expressionist film--new perspectives. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dietrich Scheunemann.
• Other Names: Scheunemann, Dietrich
• Contents: Activating the differences : expressionist film and early Weimar cinema / Dietrich Scheunemann -- Weimar cinema, mobile selves, and anxious males : Kracauer and Eisner revisited / Thomas Elsaesser -- Revolution, power, and desire in Ernst Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry / Marc Silberman -- "Bringing the ghostly to life" : Fritz Lang and his early Dr. Mabuse films / Norbert Grob -- Murnau, a conservative filmmaker? : on film history as intellectual history / Thomas Koebner -- The double, the décor, and the framing device : once more on Robert Wiene's The cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Dietrich Scheunemann -- Film as graphic art : on Karl Heinz Martin's From morn to midnight / Jürgen Kasten -- Episodic patchwork : the bric-à-brac principle in Paul Leni's Waxworks / Jürgen Kasten -- Entrapment and escape : readings of the city in Karl Grune's The street and G.W. Pabst's The joyless street / Anthony Coulson -- Fragmenting the space : on E.A. Dupont's Varieté / Thomas Brandlmeier -- On Murnau's Faust : a generic Gesamtkunstwerk? / Helmut Schanze -- "Painting in time" and "visual music" : on German avant-garde films of the 1920s / Walter Schobert -- Ruttmann, rhythm, and "reality" : a response to Siegfried Kracauer's interpretation of Berlin, the symphony of a great city.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43/0943; Motion pictures -- Germany -- History; Expressionism; Cinéma -- Allemagne -- Histoire; Expressionnisme; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference; Expressionism; Motion pictures; Filmkunst; Expressionisme; Avant-garde; Germany; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571136121; 1571136126
• Notes: Note: Includes filmography: pages 271-278.; Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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