An Analysis Of German Expressionism In Relation To The Emerging Hollywood Style
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An Analysis Of German Expressionism In Relation To The Emerging Hollywood Style
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Author : Julia Deitermann
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2006-09-18
An Analysis Of German Expressionism In Relation To The Emerging Hollywood Style written by Julia Deitermann and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Film Science, grade: A, San Diego State University, course: Film History & Aesthetics, language: English, abstract: In the first twenty years of film history, Hollywood had already conquered large parts of the world through the creation of artistic silent films. While American filmmakers, such as D. W. Griffith, focused on montage, continuity, and coherence as a means of narrating a story, thus making the narration more comprehensible and the characters more reliable, German filmmakers predominantly emphasized the mise-en-scène of the film when they created a new genre - the Expressionist film. In general, Expressionism is a term used for the distorted representation of reality which attempts to reveal an inner vision of the soul that is shaped by fear and wonder at the same time. The rise of German Expressionism after World War I can be traced back to a number of reasons. First of all, society was shattered by years of war and the rapid changes that had taken place in the last decade. The political system of the monarchy was abolished to pave the way for a parliamentary democracy. However, the Weimar Republic was politically instable, a revolution was put down and economy was not flourishing. The cultural movement of Expressionism represented all the changes in society, among them industrialization, the boom of radio and film, and Einstein’s and Freud’s revolutionary approaches to the world; all of which provoked the need of a new representation of reality. Moreover, people not only longed for entertainment and distraction in this insecure new world, but also did they inherit a new sense of “intellectual liberation” after censorship was ended and women were allowed to vote. Furthermore, the German film industry lacked film imports from other countries and decided to become involved in international film business itself, thus creating the large film company Ufa (Universum Film AG) that still exists today. Ufa produced films of various genres, but the most popular and influential in the world was to become the Expressionist film. Expressionism insofar forms a sharp contrast to Impressionism and Naturalism, as it does not attempt to depict momentary impressions of the world, nor does it aim at presenting the physical world as it is. On the contrary, it portrays an interpreted psychological and spiritual reality, thus revealing the underlying essence and meaning of things. As a result, reality can be seen as a creation of the mind, which calls for the viewer’s interpretation. [...]
Expressionist Film New Perspectives
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Author : Dietrich Scheunemann
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2003
Expressionist Film New Perspectives written by Dietrich Scheunemann and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
New essays by leading scholars giving a new picture of the variety of German expressionist cinema.
German Expressionist Films
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Author : Paul Cooke
language : en
Publisher: No Exit Press
Release Date : 2002
German Expressionist Films written by Paul Cooke and has been published by No Exit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Expressionism in motion pictures categories.
German Expressionist film had a massive impact on 20th century film-making and on pop culture generally. Packed full of facts and analysis, this text is an ideal starting place for anyone interested in this period of film history.
Weimar Cinema And After
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Author : Thomas Elsaesser
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Weimar Cinema And After written by Thomas Elsaesser and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Performing Arts categories.
German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst, which having apparently announced the horrors of fascism, while testifying to the traumas of a defeated nation, still casts a long shadow over cinema in Germany, leaving film history and political history permanently intertwined. Weimar Cinema and After offers a fresh perspective on this most 'national' of national cinemas, re-evaluating the arguments which view genres and movements such as 'films of the fantastic', 'Nazi Cinema', 'film noir' and 'New German Cinema' as typically German contributions to twentieth century visual culture. Thomas Elsaesser questions conventional readings which link these genres to romanticism and expressionism, and offers new approaches to analysing the function of national cinema in an advanced 'culture industry' and in a Germany constantly reinventing itself both geographically and politically. Elsaesser argues that German cinema's significance lies less in its ability to promote democracy or predict fascism than in its contribution to the creation of a community sharing a 'historical imaginary' rather than a 'national identity'. In this respect, he argues, German cinema anticipated some of the problems facing contemporary nations in reconstituting their identities by means of media images, memory, and invented traditions.
Expressionism As An International Literary Phenomenon
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Author : Ulrich Weisstein
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1973-01-01
Expressionism As An International Literary Phenomenon written by Ulrich Weisstein and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ulrich Weisstein's collection of 21 essays offers a comparative study of Expressionism as a Modernist movement whose dynamic core lay in Germany and Austria-Hungary, but which transformed artistic practices in other European countries. The focus, Weisstein argues, must be strictly and sharply aimed at a specific body of works and opinionsa relatively dense core surrounded by a less clearly defined fringe zoneindigenous to the German speaking countries. The volume spans an Expressionist period extending from roughly 1910 to 1925. Weisstein himself contributes two introductory chapters on problems of definition and a thoughtful analysis of English Vorticism. An ample context is set by comparative essays concerned with international movements such as Futurism that had an impact on German Expressionist drama, prose, and poetry, together with essays on the adaptation of Expressionist forms in countries such as Poland, Russia, Hungary, South Slavic nations and the United States. These essays call attention to representative authors and artists, as well as to periodicals and artistic circles. Reviewers have praised not only the presentation of literary links and interaction among national cultures, but especially the most rewarding interdisciplinary essays on Dada and on Expressionist painting, music, and film.
Robert Altman And The Elaboration Of Hollywood Storytelling
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Author : Mark Minett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2021
Robert Altman And The Elaboration Of Hollywood Storytelling written by Mark Minett and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Performing Arts categories.
Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the early 1970s (including M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Images, The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, California Split, and Nashville) sheds new light on both the films and the filmmaker, reframing Altman as a complex, pragmatic innovator whose work exceeds, but is also grounded in, the norms of classical Hollywood storytelling rather than someone who rejected those norms in favor of modernist art cinema. Its findings and approach hold important implications for the study of cinematic authorship. Largely avoiding thematic exegesis, it employs an historical poetics approach, robust functionalist frameworks, archival research, and formal and statistical analysis to demystify the essential features of the standard account of Altman's filmmaking history and profile-lax narrative form, heavy reliance on the zoom, sound design replete with overlapping dialogue, improvisational infidelity to the screenplay, and a desire to subvert based in his time in the training grounds of industrial filmmaking and filmed television. The book provides a clear example of how a filmmaker might work collaboratively and pragmatically within and across media institutions to elaborate upon their sanctioned practices and aims. We misunderstand Altman's work, and the creative work of Hollywood filmmakers in general, when we insist on describing innovation as opposition to institutional norms and on describing those norms as simply assimilating innovation.
Expressionism And Film
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Author : Christian Kiening
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-21
Expressionism And Film written by Christian Kiening and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-21 with Performing Arts categories.
Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion—as an intersection of world view, resoluteness of form, and medial transition. Though one of the most frequently-cited works of Weimar culture, Kurtz's groundbreaking work, which is on a par with Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler and Lotte Eisner's The Haunted Screen, has never been published in English. Its relevance and historical contexts are analyzed in a concise afterword by the Swiss scholars Christian Kiening and Ulrich Johannes Beil.
From Caligari To Hitler
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Author : Siegfried Kracauer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-02
From Caligari To Hitler written by Siegfried Kracauer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Performing Arts categories.
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.
German Expressionism
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Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Release Date : 2011
German Expressionism written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and has been published by The Museum of Modern Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar. 27-July 11, 2011.
German Expressionism
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Author : Jill Lloyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
German Expressionism written by Jill Lloyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art categories.
Primitivism versus modernity: the expressionist dilemma - Politics of primitivism - Brucke bathers: back to nature - Max Pechstein's visionary ideas - Emil Nolded.