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The haunted screen : Expressionism in the German cinema and the influence of Max Reinhardt.

By: Eisner, Lotte HMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Thames and Hudson, 1969
Contents:
1. The predisposition towards Expressionism 2. The beginnings of the Expressionist film: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Genuine; Von Morgens bis Mitternachts; Torgus; Raskolnikow 3. The spell of light: the influence of Max Reinhardt: The student of Prague (1913); Max Reinhardt; The Golem (1920); Die Chronik von Grieshuss; Vanina; Carl Boese on the special effects for The Golem 4. Lubitsch and the costume film: Madame Dubarry; Sumurun; Anna Boleyn; Danton; Othello; Pola Negri 5. The stylized fantastic: Der Mude Tod 6. The symphonies of horror: Nosferatu; the demoniac bourgeois; the sway of the Doppelganger 7. 'Decorative' expressionism: Waxworks; the concept of space; the obsession with corridors and staircases; Paul Leni on set designing 8. The world of shadows and mirrors: Warning shadows; the expressionist actor 9. Studio architecture and landscape: Nie Nibelungen; geometric grouping 10. The expressionist debut of a 'realistic' director: Der Schatz 11. Kammerspielfilm and Stimmung: Hintertreppe; Scherben; Sylvester; Paul Czinner; Elisabeth Bergner; Stimmung 12. Murnau and the Kammerspielfilm: The last laugh; the mobile camera 13. The handling of crowds: Metropolis; the influence of the expressionist choruses and Piscator 14. The Fritz Lang thriller: Die Spinnen; Dr. Mabuse der Spieler; Spione; Die Frau im Mond 15. Tragedies of the street: Die Strasse; The joyless street; Asta Neilsen; Dirnentragodie; the absolute film; Asphalt 16. The evolution of the costume film: Tartuffe 17. The eye of the camera in E.A. Dupont: Das Alte Gesetz; Variety 18. The climax of the Chiaroscuro: Faust 19. Pabst and the miracle of Louise Brooks: Pandora's Box; Diary of a lost girl; Censorship and Pabst's realism 20. The decline of the German film: The coming of sound; Die Dreigroschenoper; M; Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse; Madchen in uniform; the Ufa style; Leni Riefenstahl; the post-Nazi era Appendix: The Dreigroschenoper lawsuit
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1. The predisposition towards Expressionism 2. The beginnings of the Expressionist film: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Genuine; Von Morgens bis Mitternachts; Torgus; Raskolnikow 3. The spell of light: the influence of Max Reinhardt: The student of Prague (1913); Max Reinhardt; The Golem (1920); Die Chronik von Grieshuss; Vanina; Carl Boese on the special effects for The Golem 4. Lubitsch and the costume film: Madame Dubarry; Sumurun; Anna Boleyn; Danton; Othello; Pola Negri 5. The stylized fantastic: Der Mude Tod 6. The symphonies of horror: Nosferatu; the demoniac bourgeois; the sway of the Doppelganger 7. 'Decorative' expressionism: Waxworks; the concept of space; the obsession with corridors and staircases; Paul Leni on set designing 8. The world of shadows and mirrors: Warning shadows; the expressionist actor 9. Studio architecture and landscape: Nie Nibelungen; geometric grouping 10. The expressionist debut of a 'realistic' director: Der Schatz 11. Kammerspielfilm and Stimmung: Hintertreppe; Scherben; Sylvester; Paul Czinner; Elisabeth Bergner; Stimmung 12. Murnau and the Kammerspielfilm: The last laugh; the mobile camera 13. The handling of crowds: Metropolis; the influence of the expressionist choruses and Piscator 14. The Fritz Lang thriller: Die Spinnen; Dr. Mabuse der Spieler; Spione; Die Frau im Mond 15. Tragedies of the street: Die Strasse; The joyless street; Asta Neilsen; Dirnentragodie; the absolute film; Asphalt 16. The evolution of the costume film: Tartuffe 17. The eye of the camera in E.A. Dupont: Das Alte Gesetz; Variety 18. The climax of the Chiaroscuro: Faust 19. Pabst and the miracle of Louise Brooks: Pandora's Box; Diary of a lost girl; Censorship and Pabst's realism 20. The decline of the German film: The coming of sound; Die Dreigroschenoper; M; Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse; Madchen in uniform; the Ufa style; Leni Riefenstahl; the post-Nazi era Appendix: The Dreigroschenoper lawsuit

First published in France: Le Terrain Vague, 1952 as 'L'Ecran Démoniaque'Translation of : L'écran démoniaque.

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