Expressionism in the Cinema
by Brill, Olaf; Rhodes, Gary D.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2017-09-01
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Author Biography
Olaf Brill is a German-based freelance writer and editor for film institutes, museums and festivals, including the German Film Institute - DIF, Frankfurt, the Filmmuseum Berlin, and CineGraph, Hamburg.
Gary D. Rhodes, Ph.D., currently serves as Postgraduate Director for Film Studies at the Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Editors' Introduction
Section I: Expressionism in German Cinema
1. Expressionist Cinema: Style and Design in Film History, Thomas Elsaesser
2. Of Nerves and Men: Postwar Delusion and Robert Reinert's Nerven, Steve Choe
3. Franjo Ledic: A Forgotten Pioneer of German Expressionism, Daniel Rafaelic
4. Expressionist Film and Gender: Genuine, A Tale of a Vampire (1920), Mirjam Kappes
5. 'The Secrets of Nature and Its Unifying Principles': Nosferatu (1922) and Jakob von Uexküll on Umwelt, Steve Choe
6. Raskolnikow (1923): Russian Literature as Impetus for German Expressionism, John T. Soister
Section 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), Olaf Brill
8. 'The rewakening of French cinema': expression and innovation in Abel Gance's J'accuse! (1919), Paul Cuff
Here Among the Dead: The Phantom Carriage (1921) and the Cinema of the Occulted Taboo, Robert Guffey
9. Drakula halála (1921): The Cinema's First Dracula, Gary D. Rhodes
10. Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine's clind' Doeil to German Expressionism, Bernard McCarron
11. Nietzsche's Fingerprints on The Hands of Orlac (1924), Phillip Sipiora
12. 'True, Nervous': American Expressionist Cinema and the Destabilized Male, Robert Singer
13. Dos monjes (1934) and the Tortured Search for Truth, David J. Hogan
14. Maya Deren in Person in Expressionism, Graeme Harper
Author Biographies
Index
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