EXPRESSIONISM IN THE CINEMA

Copyright

Contents

Illustrations

Contributors

TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA

Introduction

1. Expressionist Cinema— Style and Design in Film History

2. Of Nerves and Men: Postwar Delusion and Robert Reinert’s Nerven

3. Franjo Ledic: A Forgotten Pioneer of German Expressionism

4. Expressionist Film and Gender: Genuine, A Tale of a Vampire (1920)

5. “The Secrets of Nature and Its Unifying Principles”: Nosferatu (1922) and Jakob von Uexküll on Umwelt

6. Raskolnikow (1923): Russian Literature as Impetus for German Expressionism

7. The Austrian Connection: The Frame Story and Insanity in Paul Czinner’s Inferno (1919) and Fritz Freisler’s The Mandarin (1918)

8. “The reawakening of French cinema”:

9. Here Among the Dead: The Phantom Carriage (1921) and the Cinema of the Occulted Taboo

10. Drakula halála (1921): The Cinema’s First Dracula

11. Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine’s clin d’œil to German xpressionism

12. Nietzsche’s Fingerprints on The Hands of Orlac (1924)

13. “True, Nervous”: American Expressionist Cinema and the Destabilized Male

14. Dos monjes (1934) and the Tortured Search for Truth

15. Maya Deren in Person in Expressionism

Index of Names

Index of Film Titles