Analyse any one film or group of films in relation to its social and ideological context: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" along with "The Student of Prague".
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:26:28
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 10 pages (2655 words)
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 10 pages (2655 words)
I have chosen two films that I hope will forge a good foundation for the arguments in this forthcoming essay.
Firstly I'm going to look at a film that can be viewed as one of the original productions to come out of the early German horror genre, Stellan Rye's "The Student of Prague" directed in 1913 and then secondly to build on the arguments raised in my essay I will look at "The Cabinet of Dr. …
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…Coates Paul. The Gorgon's Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror, 1991.
Kracauer Siegrfied. From Caligari to Hitler, A Psychological History of the German Film, 1947
Lotte H. Eisner. The Haunted Screen, Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt, 1952
Elsaesser Thomas. Weimar cinema and after: Germany's historical imaginary, 2001
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Timothy O. Benson Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) 2001
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