Shell shock cinema : Weimar culture and the wounds of war / Anton Kaes
- Author:
- Kaes, Anton
- Published:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2009
- Physical Description:
- xi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Contents:
- The war at home. The wounded soldier -- The spirit of 1914 -- Film and nation -- The battle of images -- A medium for deception -- The new empire -- Mental breakdowns -- Tales from the asylum. War neurotics -- Recovering the past -- Phantoms and freaks -- From Dr. Charcot to Dr. Caligari -- Madness as resistance -- The Hitler connection -- Shattered space -- The return of the undead. The lost generation -- Mass death -- Dracula revisited -- A community under siege -- Hysteria on the home front -- The allure of the occult -- The work of mourning -- Myth, murder, and revenge. The national project -- Posing for Germany -- The will to form -- The fallen hero -- Excursus: Lang in World War I -- The sacred battle -- The end of violence -- The industrial battlefield. Rise of the machines -- Moloch war -- Lang's America -- The hunger for religion -- The workers' revolt -- Destruction and regeneration -- Aftershocks -- Conclusion.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780691031361 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691031363 (hardcover : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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