German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror /
First Statement of Responsibility
Paul Coates.
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Cambridge :
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Cambridge University Press,
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2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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287 pages ;
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23 cm.
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Cambridge studies in film
GENERAL NOTES
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Originally published: 1991.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Filmography.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-273) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the uncanny and the gorgon's gaze -- Silent cinema and expressionism -- The sleep of reason: monstrosity and disavowal -- Memory and repression in recent German cinema -- Expressionism in America -- Elective affinities and family resemblances: for Margarethe von Trotta -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 20th century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism.
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German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror