Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany
Seiten
2016
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-1772-9 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-1772-9 (ISBN)
Weimar cultural critics and intellectuals have repeatedly linked the dynamic movement of the cinema to discourses of life and animation. Correspondingly, recent film historians and theorists have taken up these discourses to theorize the moving image, both in analog and digital. But, many important issues are overlooked. Combining close readings of individual films with detailed interpretations of philosophical texts, all produced in Weimar Germany immediately following the Great War, Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany shows how these films teach viewers about living and dying within a modern, mass mediated context.
Choe places relatively underanalyzed films such as F. W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle and Arthur Robison's Warning Shadows alongside Martin Heidegger's early seminars on phenomenology, Sigmund Freud's Reflections upon War and Death and Max Scheler's critique of ressentiment. It is the experience of war trauma that underpins these correspondences, and Choe foregrounds life and death in the films by highlighting how they allegorize this opposition through the thematics of animation and stasis.
Choe places relatively underanalyzed films such as F. W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle and Arthur Robison's Warning Shadows alongside Martin Heidegger's early seminars on phenomenology, Sigmund Freud's Reflections upon War and Death and Max Scheler's critique of ressentiment. It is the experience of war trauma that underpins these correspondences, and Choe foregrounds life and death in the films by highlighting how they allegorize this opposition through the thematics of animation and stasis.
Steve Choe is Associate Professor of CInema at San Francisco State University, USA.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Two Postwar Masculinities
Robert Reinert’s Nerves (1919)
Chapter Two: Melancholy Specters
F. W. Murnau’s The Haunted Castle (1921) and Phantom (1922)
Chapter Three: The Temporality of Destiny
Fritz Lang’s Destiny (1921)
Chapter Four: The Cinematic Other
Paul Wegener’s The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)
Chapter Five: Technologies of Vengeance
Fritz Lang’s The Nibelungen (1924) and Arthur Robison’s Warning Shadows (1923)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.1.2016 |
---|---|
Reihe/Serie | Thinking Cinema |
Zusatzinfo | 40 bw illus |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 470 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-1772-5 / 1501317725 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-1772-9 / 9781501317729 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Erinnerungen
Buch | Softcover (2024)
Pantheon (Verlag)
16,00 €