Title
- Short Cuts (London, England) ; 40
Attribution
Ian RobertsPublication Details
BookWallflower Press2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1993.5.G3 R56 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN) New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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iridescent movement’ of Weimar cinema provide some of cinema’s most iconic images, and its vivid contrasts and dark spaces constitute a major influence on Hollywood classics such as Citizen Kane (1941) and Sunset Boulevard (1950). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction : immanence, imagination and immortality
- Origins : expressionism and Weimar film
- Authority overthrown, or, lunatics in the asylum : Robert Wiene’s Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
- Demons without and within : F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu
- Images of the past, visions of the future : Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen and Metropolis
- Virgins and vamps : G.W. Pabst’s Die Buchse der Pandora
- Street life and the end of expressionism : Joe May’s Asphalt
- Conclusion : Weimar cinema’s flights of fantasy
ISBN
- 9781905674602
- 1905674600
Open Library ID
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