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THE GORGON'S GAZE
GERMAN CINEMA, EXPRESSIONISM, AND THE IMAGE OF HORROR

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Paul Coates

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0521063361

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 March, 2008

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Film

Pages:

304

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The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century.

Synopsis:

The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound cinema, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.

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