Paul Coates

The Gorgon's Gaze

German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Coates explores the nature of expressionism and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Film
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780521063364
• ISBN-10: 0521063361
• Artikelnr.: 23581255

Inhaltsangabe

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.