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Frances GuerinPublication Details
BookUniversity of Minnesota Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1993.5.G3 G84 2005 DUE 11-12-09 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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And during Weimar Germany’s advance to technological modernity, light - particularly the representational possibilities of electrical light - became the link between the cinema screen and the rapid changes that were transforming German life. Guerin depicts a nocturnal Germany suffused with light - electric billboards, storefronts, police searchlights - and shows how this element of the mise-en-scene came to reflect both the opportunities and the anxieties surrounding modernity and democracy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- The electrification of life, cinema, and art
- Bringing cinema to life through light: German film in World War I - - Legends of light and shadow: the mythical past in Algol and Schatten
- The spell of light: cinema as modern magic in Faust, Der Golem, Siegfried, and Metropolis
- Refomulations of space through light in Die StraBe, Jenseits der StraBe, and Am Rande der Welt
- Dazzled by the profusion of lights: technological entertainment in Varieté and Sylvester
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- 0816642869
- 0816642850
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