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Author : Anton Kaes

Date : 2011-10-02

Page : 327

Rating : 4.0

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Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War ~ Shell Shock Cinema is    an outstanding book that will be of considerable value to students and scholars—Adam C Stanley Canadian Journal of History Shell Shock Cinema posits a complex and convincing model of the fraught relationship between historical violence and representation as well as a unique perspective on the legacies of war
Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War  ~ Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nations defeat In this exciting new book Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Nosferatu The Nibelungen and Metropolis even though they do not depict battle scenes or soldiers in combat 
Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War  ~ Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nations defeat In this exciting new book Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Nosferatu The Nibelungen and Metropolis even though they do not depict battle scenes or
Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War  ~ Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes Princeton New Jersey Princeton University Press 2009 xi 312 pp 2995 US cloth In this expertly argued book Anton Kaes explores the nature of Weimar cinema to illustrate the manner in which World War I though rarely referenced directly nonetheless informed 
Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War  ~ Kaes uses the term shell shockcoined during World War I to describe soldiers suffering from nervous breakdownsas a metaphor for the psychological wounds that found expression in Weimar cinema Directors like Robert Wiene F W Murnau and Fritz Lang portrayed paranoia panic and fear of invasion in films peopled with serial killers mad 
Project MUSE  Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the  ~ Anton Kaes’s Shell Shock Cinema presents readings of Weimar film in the context of the ravages of World War I Kaes argues that Weimar film is best understood as a means of psychologically working through the emotional turmoil of German defeat that included two million dead and four million disabled as well as the tumultuous social and cultural changes brought on by modernity
Anton Kaes Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the  ~ This book has a special place among the spate of recent works dealing with the legacies of the cataclysmic war that began 100 years ago Distinguished German studies scholar and film specialist Anton Kaes offers a bold and complex reinterpretation of Weimar cinema and at the same time the culture of historical memory
Shell shock cinema  Weimar culture and the wounds of war  ~ Kaes uses the term shell shock  coined during World War I to describe soldiers suffering from nervous breakdowns  as a metaphor for the psychological wounds that found expression in Weimar cinema
Project MUSE  Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the  ~ Shell Shock Cinema Weimar Culture and the Wounds of  Kaes Princeton NJ Princeton University Press 2009 Pp xi  312 2995 cloth