The Gorgon's Gaze

Basic Information

Title

The Gorgon's Gaze

Subtitle

German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror

Parallel Title

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Country

국외

Production Date

1991-**-**

Language

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Size (mm)

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Pages

287쪽

ISBN/ISSN

0521384095

Edition

1st edition

Master Files

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Producer

Paul Coates (저자), Cambridge University Press (발행처)

Description

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Contents

Contents

CONTENTS Preface = ⅸ Acknowledgments = xiii Introduction : The uncanny and the gorgon's gaze = 1 Postscript : "Lenz," Herzog, and the freak = 14 Ⅰ Silent cinema and expressionism = 18 Realism, totalitarianism, and the death of silent cinema = 18 Notes on Faust, Caligari, and The Student of Prague = 26 Lang, Von Harbou, and the female god: Metropolis and Kriemhilds Rache = 41 Lulu, Lola, and male masochism = 54 Concluding unscientific postscript on expressionism and silence = 72 Ⅱ The sleep of reason : Monstrosity and disavowal = 74 The German, the French, and the monster = 74 King Kong, on screen and off = 77 The phallus and the sublime = 81 Three faces of the Other in the horror film = 85 Invasion of the Body Snatchers = 87 From Dracula to Nosferatu = 90 Vampyr : From the house of the dead = 99 Horror and derision = 102 Conclusion = 104 Ⅲ Memory and repression in recent German cinema = 108 On representation and repression = 108 From the life of the marionettes : Approaches to Syberberg = 114 The uncanny homeland : Heimat and Welcome to Germany = 129 Late Fassbinder and popular culture : <TEX>$$\grave A$$</TEX> propos Lili Marleen = 135 The view from abroad : East Europeans and the German past = 144 Ⅳ Expressionism in America = 156 "Ended before it began..." : Citizen K. and Citizen Kane = 158 INXS : Touch of Evil = 164 The big sleep and the little dreamer : The political unconscious of film noir = 170 Vertigo, visual pleasure, and the end of film noir = 177 Anatomies of murder = 186 Ⅴ Elective affinities and family resemblances : For Margarethe von Trotta = 193 Introduction = 193 Bergman, Rymkiewicz, and Von Trotta : Women and children as doubles = 194 Father, son, and daughter : B<TEX>$$\ddot o$$</TEX>ll, Straub, and Von Trotta = 213 Appendixes 1 Melodrama contra the fantastic : Petro, Elsaesser, and Sirk = 229 2 Early cinema, surrealism, and allegory = 237 3 Modernism and the body as machine = 239 4 The articulation of guilt in Broch's Der Versucher = 242 5 Film noir, Macbeth, and murdered sleep = 246 6 Dissolving the fear of the feminine : Wim Wenders = 249 Notes = 258 Selected bibliography = 264 Filmography = 274 Index = 281

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