This interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century focuses on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras. The author explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.
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"...Coates' insights into individual films are sensitive and stimulating." Sheila K. Johnson, The German Quarterly
"These readings are characterized by great sensitivity to the films in question and are driven forward less by argumentation than by a kind of free association informed by considerable knowledge of European film and literary history and psychoanalytic approaches to film. Often what results are brilliant insights and very persuasive connections..." Monatshefte
"These readings are characterized by great sensitivity to the films in question and are driven forward less by argumentation than by a kind of free association informed by considerable knowledge of European film and literary history and psychoanalytic approaches to film. Often what results are brilliant insights and very persuasive connections..." Monatshefte
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The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Coates explores the nature of expressionism and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman.
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The received accounts of the development of the arts during the past 150 years speak of a movement from realism to modernism, and thence to postmodernism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
implicit spectator, oral mother, uncanny world, silent cinema, sound cinema, double body, thirteen moons, phallic woman, repressed homosexuality, blue angel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Von Harbou, Von Stroheim, King Kong, Our Hitler, The Student of Prague, Von Sternberg, Warsaw Ghetto, West German, Citizen Kane, Lola Lola, Thomas Mann, Elisabet Vogler, Jack the Ripper, National Socialist, Touch of Evil, Heinrich Mann, Laura Mulvey, Thomas Elsaesser, Winter Light, Doktor Faustus, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Joh Fredersen, Kriemhilds Rache, Nazi Germany, The Conformist New!
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The received accounts of the development of the arts during the past 150 years speak of a movement from realism to modernism, and thence to postmodernism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
implicit spectator, oral mother, uncanny world, silent cinema, sound cinema, double body, thirteen moons, phallic woman, repressed homosexuality, blue angel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Von Harbou, Von Stroheim, King Kong, Our Hitler, The Student of Prague, Von Sternberg, Warsaw Ghetto, West German, Citizen Kane, Lola Lola, Thomas Mann, Elisabet Vogler, Jack the Ripper, National Socialist, Touch of Evil, Heinrich Mann, Laura Mulvey, Thomas Elsaesser, Winter Light, Doktor Faustus, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Joh Fredersen, Kriemhilds Rache, Nazi Germany, The Conformist New!
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