Expressionism in the Cinema -

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Résumé :
'The essays in Brill and Rhodes' Expressionism in the Cinema not only extend the scholarship on Expressionist films, though that, in itself, would be ample contribution. They also capture the essence - the imagery, the irony, the worldview - that animates these films, and create thoughtful connections to wider social and cultural processes.'
Cynthia Miller, Emerson College Boston

One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film history and aesthetics. The fifteen essays in this anthology remedy this by revisiting key German films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922) and also provide original critical research into more obscure titles like Nerven (1919) and The Phantom Carriage (1921), films that were produced in the silent and early sound era in countries ranging from France, Sweden and Hungary to the United States and Mexico.

An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in the Cinema re-canonises the classical Expressionist aesthetic, extending the critical and historical discussion beyond pre-existing scholarship into comparative and interdisciplinary areas of film research that reach across national boundaries.

Olaf Brill is a German-based freelance writer and editor for film institutes, museums and festivals, including the German Film Institute - DIF, Frankfurt, the Filmmuseum Berlin and CineGraph, Hamburg

Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as MA Convenor for Film Studies at The Queen's University in Belfast

Cover image: The Telltale Heart, 1928, Dir. Charles Klein

Cover design: Latte

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Biographie:

Olaf Brill is a German-based freelance writer and editor for film institutes, museums and festivals, including the German Film Institute - DIF, Frankfurt, the Filmmuseum Berlin, and CineGraph, Hamburg.

Gary D. Rhodes is Head of Film & Mass Media at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Lugosi (1997), White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (2002), Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012) and The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012). Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Currently he is at work on a history of the American horror film to 1915, as well as a biography of William Fox.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgements; Editors' Introduction; Section I: Expressionism in German Cinema; Expressionist Cinema: Style and Design in Film History, Thomas Elsaesser; Of Nerves and Men: Postwar Delusion and Robert Reinert's Nerven, Steve Choe; Franjo Ledic: A Forgotten Pioneer of German Expressionism, Daniel Rafaelic; Expressionist Film and Gender: Genuine, A Tale of a Vampire (1920), Mirjam Kappes; 'The Secrets of Nature and Its Unifying Principles': Nosferatu (1922) and Jakob von Uexk?ll on Umwelt, Steve Choe; Raskolnikow (1923): Russian Literature as Impetus for German Expressionism, John T. Soister; Section II: Expressionism in Global Cinema; The Austrian Connection: The Frame Story and Insanity in Paul Czinner's Inferno (1919) and Fritz Freisler's The Mandarin (1918), Olaf Brill; 'The rewakening of French cinema': expression and innovation in Abel Gance's J'accuse! (1919), Paul Cuff; Here Among the Dead: The Phantom Carriage (1921) and the Cinema of the Occulted Taboo, Robert Guffey; Drakula hal?la (1921): The Cinema's First Dracula, Gary D. Rhodes; Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine's clind'oeil to German Expressionism, Bernard McCarron; Nietzsche's Fingerprints on The Hands of Orlac (1924), Phillip Sipiora; 'True, Nervous': American Expressionist Cinema and the Destabilized Male, Robert Singer; Dos monjes (1934) and the Tortured Search for Truth, David J. Hogan; Maya Deren in Person in Expressionism, Graeme Harper; Author Biographies; Index