The Gorgon's Gaze
German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror
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- Author: Paul Coates
- Date Published: February 2011
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This interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century focuses on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras. The author explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound, 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.
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"...Coates' insights into individual films are sensitive and stimulating." Sheila K. Johnson, The German Quarterly
See more reviews"These readings are characterized by great sensitivity to the films in question and are driven forward less by argumentation than by a kind of free association informed by considerable knowledge of European film and literary history and psychoanalytic approaches to film. Often what results are brilliant insights and very persuasive connections..." Monatshefte
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- Date Published: February 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511877049
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
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
Appendixes
Notes
Selected bibliography
Filmography
Index.
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