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In this book, David Robinson challenges long accepted versions of the history and reception of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, and seeks to redefine its relationship to the larger phenomenon of Expressionist art.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, released in Germany in 1920, is a legendary horror film that set new standards for cinema. It has come down to us as the first "art" movie, the first work of German expressionism, and a movie despised by its initial audiences that took time to win favor. The most famous story about its production was told by screenwriter Hans Janowitz. He claimed that director Robert Wiene added unnecessary material that belittled the impact of the script he wrote with Carl Mayer.
In this excellent little book, David Robinson investigates these legends and proves most of them to be false. He claims that though admittedly influential, Caligari was not a pioneering work of German expressionism. In fact, its creators conceived of its sensationalistic decor to cater to popular audiences of the time. Robinson proves that their intentions succeeded: Caligari was actually beloved by audiences from the day of its release.
The author also debunks Janowitz's account. In an appendix that includes the recently discovered scenario for the film, Robinson demonstrates the valuable contributions Wiene made to the script, reconsidering many qualities of the movie as the work of the director rather than the screenwriters. This critique, a major reevaluation of a pioneering film, is thus also a reevaluation of cinema history itself. --Raphael Shargel
About the Author
David Robinson is a film critic, historian of popular performing arts, and Director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Classic Film Scripts)
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Revised Edition. 1984. 100pp. Complete screenplay of the film plus 20 pages of b&w photos from the film. Book in excellent condition. Light wear to edges but generally in excellent condition with no inscriptions. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the great classics of the German Expressionist cinema and one of the most influential films ever made. Its crazily painted sets and obsession with mental cruelty and madness set the tone of the German cinema for many years to come. Its themes of human exploitation and brutal murder prefigured the spiritual and moral climate of Nazi Germany. . The original screenplay for the film, by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, was revolutionary in this examination of arbitrary authority. The deranged director of a psychiatric institution adopts the identity of an eighteenth-century Italian showman called Caligari, who had hypnotised a somnambulist called Cesare and obliged him to commit a number of murders while in a hypnotic state. This latter-day Caligari also obliges a somnambulist called Cesare to commit a number of murders, bringing terror to a fictitious German town. When the film was finally shot, the director Robert Wiene introduced a framing story, whereby the whole series of events concerning the modern Caligari are shown to exist only in the feverish imagination of a patient in the director's own institution. . This edition of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has been prepared from a shot-by-shot viewing of the film. The introductory material includes Siegfried Kracauer's famous essay on Caligari, an account of how the screenplay became the film by Erich Pom-mer and an appreciation by Paul Rotha. The text is illustrated with almost fifty stills.". Seller Inventory # Film084
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Classic Film Scripts; Foreword by Andrew Sinclair.
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Karton. Condition: Gut. 1040 S., 21cm Zustand: gering bestoßen --- Inhalt: englischer Text. A film by Robert Wiene, Cal Mayer and Hans Janowitz. English translation and description of action by R.V. Adkinson. Texts by Siegfried Kracauer, Erich Pommer and Paul Rotha. schwarzweiß illustriert ORA2-3 ISBN: 9780856470844 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 200. Seller Inventory # 76360
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