TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coates,Paul
TI  - The Gorgon's gaze: German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror 
T2  - Cambridge studies in film
SN  - 9780521063364 (pbk.) :
U1  - 791.4'3'0943 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - Expressionism
KW  - Monsters in motion pictures
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - eflch
N1  - 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; Specialized
N2  - '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
ER  -