| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cinema and modernity |
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Cinema and modernity.
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| Contents |
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Index; I TALES OF HYPNOTIC CRIME; II INVISIBLE CORPORATE BODIES; III STAGING THE HYPNOTIC CRIME; IV BERNHEIM, CALIGARI, MABUSE: CINEMA AND HYPNOTISM; V HUMAN AND CORPORATE BODIES IN BROCH AND KAFKA; Epilogue; Appendix A. Filmography; Bibliography |
| Summary |
Silent cinema explored themes of mesmerism, possession and corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics were accusing film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over its audience. This book shows that this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was a pervasive concern of the period |
| Analysis |
silent film, cinema, mesmerism, possession, haunting, hypnotism, identity, cabinet of dr caligari, mabuse the gambler, murder, crime, free will, control, agency, kafka, bernheim, broch, autonomy, modernism, literature, suggestion, german expressionism, somnambulism, sleepwalking, vision, hallucination, nonfiction, art, berlin, babelsberg |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography: pages 163-170 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-202) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hypnotism in motion pictures.
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Hypnotism in literature.
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Hypnotism and crime.
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Corporations -- Corrupt practices.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Corporations -- Corrupt practices
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Hypnotism and crime
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Hypnotism in literature
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Hypnotism in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007039146 |
| ISBN |
9780226020570 |
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0226020576 |
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1281959030 |
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9781281959034 |
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9786611959036 |
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6611959033 |
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