Author : Ian Roberts
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Covering classic films such as 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari' and 'Nosferatu' as well as under-appreciated examples such as 'Asphalt', this volume forms an essential introduction to one of cinema's most historically important movements.
Author : Dietrich Scheunemann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130683
New essays by leading scholars giving a new picture of the variety of German expressionist cinema.
Author : Brill Olaf Brill
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474411193
One 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 provide 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.
Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0691191344
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.
Author : Christian Kiening
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0861969227
Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion—as an intersection of world view, resoluteness of form, and medial transition. Though one of the most frequently-cited works of Weimar culture, Kurtz's groundbreaking work, which is on a par with Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler and Lotte Eisner's The Haunted Screen, has never been published in English. Its relevance and historical contexts are analyzed in a concise afterword by the Swiss scholars Christian Kiening and Ulrich Johannes Beil.
Author : Lotte H. Eisner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520024793
Book on expressionism in German motion pictures.
Author : Dietrich Scheunemann
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781571133502
Beginning with a fundamentally new interpretation of 'Dr. Caligari', and with fresh views of other expressionist classics, this book offers new perspectives on important alternative styles and genres that emerged in films by such eminent directors as Lubitsch, Fritz Lang and E.A. Dupont.
Author : Neil H. Donahue
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131752
New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism.
Author : Rose-Carol Washton Long
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 1995-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520202643
"An indispensable anthology that immediately renders its predecessors obsolete. With its gathering of public and private documents, it carries us through the rise and fall of one of the great upheavals of modern art."—Robert Rosenblum, New York University "These essays, including many previously unavailable in English, are rich with startling new insights into the German Expressionist psyche. Elucidating the artists' view of government, the role of women in modern society, and their own ambivalence about the effectiveness of abstract art, this anthology is essential reading for all scholars and students of twentieth-century art."—Joan Marter, author of Alexander Calder
Author : David F. Kuhns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521583403
German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. This book describes three distinct Expressionist acting styles, all of which in their own ways attempted to show how symbolic stage performance could be a powerful rhetorical resource for a culture struggling to come to terms with the crises of historical change. The examination of Expressionist script and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of acting itself.
