The gorgon's gaze: german cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror

The Gorgon’s Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in Germancinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound cinema, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibilityof homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theoriesof 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. INDICE: Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the uncanny and the gorgon's gaze; 1. Silent cinema and expressionism; 2. The sleep of reason: monstrosity and disavowal; 3. Memory and repression in recent German cinema; 4. Expressionism in America; 5. Elective affinities and family resemblances: for Margarethe von Trotta; Appendixes; Notes; Selected bibliography; Filmography; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-521-06336-4
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 29/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés