Shell shock cinema: Weimar culture and the wounds of war

The war at home. The wounded soldier -- The spirit of 1914 -- Film and nation -- The battle of images -- A medium for deception -- The new empire -- Mental breakdowns -- Notes from the asylum. War neurotics -- Recovering the past -- Phantoms and freaks -- From Dr. Charcot to Dr. Caligari -- Madness...

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1. Verfasser: Kaes, Anton 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton [u.a.] Princeton Univ. Press 2011
Ausgabe:3. print. and 1. paperback print.
Schlagworte:
Zusammenfassung:The war at home. The wounded soldier -- The spirit of 1914 -- Film and nation -- The battle of images -- A medium for deception -- The new empire -- Mental breakdowns -- Notes from the asylum. War neurotics -- Recovering the past -- Phantoms and freaks -- From Dr. Charcot to Dr. Caligari -- Madness as resistance -- the Hitler connection -- Shattered space -- The return of the undead. The lost generation -- Mass death -- Dracula revisited -- A community under siege -- Hysteria on the home front -- The allure of the occult -- The work of mourning -- Myth, murder, and revenge. The national project -- Posing for Germany -- The will to form -- The fallen hero -- Excursus: Lang in World War I -- The sacred battle -- The end of violence -- Apocalypse redux. Rise of the machines -- Moloch war -- The American alternative -- The hunger for religion -- The workers' revolt -- Destruction and regeneration -- Aftershocks -- Epilogue
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 312 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780691008509