hypnotic crimes, corporate fiction, and the invention of cinema /
Stefan Andriopoulos ; translated by Peter Jansen and Stefan Andriopoulos.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
1 online resource (208 pages) :
illustrations
Cinema and modernity
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-202) and index.
Includes filmography: pages 163-170.
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Index; I TALES OF HYPNOTIC CRIME; II INVISIBLE CORPORATE BODIES; III STAGING THE HYPNOTIC CRIME; IV BERNHEIM, CALIGARI, MABUSE: CINEMA AND HYPNOTISM; V HUMAN AND CORPORATE BODIES IN BROCH AND KAFKA; Epilogue; Appendix A. Filmography; Bibliography.
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Silent cinema explored themes of mesmerism, possession and corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics were accusing film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over its audience. This book shows that this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was a pervasive concern of the period.