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The Haunted Screen


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Author : Lotte H. Eisner
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1969

The Haunted Screen written by Lotte H. Eisner and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Performing Arts categories.


Book on expressionism in German motion pictures.



The Haunted Screen


The Haunted Screen
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Author : Lotte H. Eisner
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-09-29

The Haunted Screen written by Lotte H. Eisner and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-29 with Performing Arts categories.


The Golden Age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari onwards the principal films of this period were characterized by two influences: literary Expressionism, and the innovations of the theatre directors of this period, in particular Max Reinhardt. This book demonstrates the connection between German Romanticism and the cinema through Expressionist writings. It discusses the influence of the theatre: the handling of crowds; the use of different levels, and of selective lighting on a predominately dark stage; the reliance on formalized gesture; the innovation of the intimate theatre. Against this background the principal films of the period are examined in detail. The author explains the key critical concepts of the time, and surveys not only the work of the great directors, such as Fritz Lang and F. W. Murnau, but also the contribution of their writers, cameramen, and designers. As The Times Literary Supplement wrote, 'Mme. Eisner is first and foremost a film critic, and one of the best in the world. She has all the necessary gifts.' And it described the original French edition of this book as 'one of the very few classics of writing on the film and arguably the best book on the cinema yet written.'



The Haunted Screen


The Haunted Screen
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Author : Lee Kovacs
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2005-11-07

The Haunted Screen written by Lee Kovacs and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-07 with Performing Arts categories.


While ghosts often inhabit films and literature devoted to the horror genre, a group of literature-based films from the 1930s and 1940s presents more human and romantic apparitions. These films provide the underpinnings for many of the gentle supernatural films of the 1990s. Tracing the links between specters as diverse as Rex Harrison's Captain Gregg and Patrick Swazye's Sam Wheat, the text presents the evolution of the cinematic-literary ghost from classic Gothic to the psychological, sociological, and political ideologies of today. Included are analyses of the literary and film versions of classic ghost stories--Wuthering Heights, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Portrait of Jennie, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Uninvited, Liliom, and Our Town--as well as interpretations of modern films not based on literary works that show the influence of these predecessors--Ghost and Truly, Madly, Deeply. The text includes stills, a bibliography, and an index.



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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

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Author : Lotte H. Eisner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

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language : en
Publisher: Strange Object
Release Date : 2024-10

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German Expressionist Cinema


German Expressionist Cinema
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Author : Ian Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008

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Covering classic films such as 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari' and 'Nosferatu' as well as under-appreciated examples such as 'Asphalt', this volume forms an essential introduction to one of cinema's most historically important movements.



Murnau


Murnau
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Author : Lotte H. Eisner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

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Blue Light Of The Screen


Blue Light Of The Screen
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Author : Claire Cronin
language : en
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Release Date : 2020-10-13

Blue Light Of The Screen written by Claire Cronin and has been published by Watkins Media Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the author's obsession with horror and the supernatural. Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid -- about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts. As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story of the author's conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural. Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory, Blue Light of the Screen is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself.



Dark Places


Dark Places
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Author : Barry Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2009-02-15

Dark Places written by Barry Curtis and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-15 with Performing Arts categories.


Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where the evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. These mysterious spaces foment the terror at the heart of horror movies, empowering the ghastly creatures that emerge to kill and torment. With Dark Places, Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them – and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there. In this wide-ranging and compelling study, Curtis demonstrates how the claustrophobic interiors of haunted spaces in films connect to the ‘dark places’ of the human psyche. He examines diverse topics such as the special effects – ranging from crude to state-of-the-art – used in movies to evoke supernatural creatures; the structures, projections and architecture of horror movie sets; and ghosts as symbols of loss, amnesia, injustice and vengeance. Dark Places also examines the reconfiguration of the haunted house in film as a motel, an apartment, a road or a spaceship, and how these re-imagined spaces thematically connect to Gothic fictions. Curtis draws his examples from numerous iconic films – including Nosferatu, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Shining – as well as lesser-known international works, which allow him to consider different cultural ideas of ‘haunting’. Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes – such as Ringu and The Ring, or Juon and The Grudge – come under particular scrutiny, as he explores Japanese cinema’s preoccupation with malevolent forces from the past. Whether you love the splatter of blood or prefer to hide under the couch, Dark Places cuts to the heart of why we are drawn to carnage.