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The Gorgon's gaze : German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror / Paul Coates.

By: Coates, Paul, 1953-Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in filmPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: xiv, 287 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780521063364 (pbk.) :; 0521063361 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Germany -- History | Expressionism | Monsters in motion pictures | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'3'0943
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.
Summary: 'The Gorgon's Gaze' is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early 20th century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism.
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Originally published: 1991.

Transferred to digital printing.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

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.

'The Gorgon's Gaze' is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early 20th century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism.

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