UID:
almafu_9960119412302883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780511877049
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0511877048
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9781139085908
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1139085905
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9780511527128
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0511527128
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Film Series
Content:
The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound cinema, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: the uncanny and the gorgon's gaze -- 1. Silent cinema and expressionism -- 2. The sleep of reason: monstrosity and disavowal -- 3. Memory and repression in recent German cinema -- 4. Expressionism in America -- 5. Elective affinities and family resemblances: for Margarethe von Trotta.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521063364
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521063361
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521384094
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521384095
Language:
English
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