The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Series Editor(s): Rothman, William; Andrew, Dudley. Series: Cambridge Studies in Film. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 642. . 1991. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Gorgon's Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror (Cambridge Studies in Film)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521384095
ISBN 13: 9780521384094
Binding: Hardcover
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This interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century focuses on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras. The author explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of 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.

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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 twentieth century. Coates explores the nature of expressionism and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman.

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