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 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(s): Olaf Bril, Gary D. Rhodes
Series: Traditions in World Cinema
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 336
City: Edinburgh
EXPRESSIONISM IN THE CINEMA
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA
Introduction
1. Expressionist Cinema—Style and Design in Film History
2. Of Nerves and Men: Postwar Delusion and Robert Reinert’s Nerven
3. Franjo Ledic: A Forgotten Pioneer of German Expressionism
4. Expressionist Film and Gender: Genuine, A Tale of a Vampire (1920)
5. “The Secrets of Nature and Its Unifying Principles”: Nosferatu (1922) and Jakob von Uexküll on Umwelt
6. Raskolnikow (1923): Russian Literature as Impetus for German Expressionism
7. The Austrian Connection: The Frame Story and Insanity in Paul Czinner’s Inferno (1919) and Fritz Freisler’s The Mandarin (1918)
8. “The reawakening of French cinema”:
9. Here Among the Dead: The Phantom Carriage (1921) and the Cinema of the Occulted Taboo
10. Drakula halála (1921): The Cinema’s First Dracula
11. Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine’s clin d’œil to German xpressionism
12. Nietzsche’s Fingerprints on The Hands of Orlac (1924)
13. “True, Nervous”: American Expressionist Cinema and the Destabilized Male
14. Dos monjes (1934) and the Tortured Search for Truth
15. Maya Deren in Person in Expressionism
Index of Names
Index of Film Titles
