Long Century's Long Shadow

Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern

AvKenneth S. Calhoon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien German and European Studies

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Beskrivning

The Long Century’s Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciprocal illumination. The author investigates different moments and media as connected phenomena, situated at alternate ends of the "long nineteenth century" but joined by their mutual rejection of the neo-classical aesthetic standard of placid and weightless poise in numerous media, including film, painting, sculpture, prose, poetry, and dance.Connecting Weimar filmmaking to Romantic thought and practice, Kenneth S. Calhoon offers a non-technological, aesthetic genealogy of cinema. He focuses on well-known literary and artistic works, including films such as Nosferatu, Metropolis, Frankenstein, and Fantasia; the writings of Conrad, Kafka, Goethe, and Novalis; and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the leading artists of German Romanticism. With an eye to the modernism of which Weimar filmmaking was a part, The Long Century’s Long Shadow employs the Romantic landscape in poetry and painting as a mirror in which to regard cinema.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-25
Mått:157 x 231 x 28 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:German and European Studies
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487526955

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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Kenneth S. Calhoon is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.

Recensioner i media

"The study would be of interest to advanced scholars of Weimar cinema well-read in the German and European aesthetic traditions of the nineteenth century. Its richness demands a patient reader, but one who will no doubt be left inspired by what comparative media studies affords to cinema studies."- Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia (EuropeNow) "Drawing on various Romantic texts including paintings, poetry, and prose, as well as expressionist Weimar cinema, Calhoun grounds his interpretations of the marriage between German Romanticism and works of expressionist cinema … This volume is recommended for both advanced students and scholars working in the field of Weimar cinema and Germanic studies."- Barbara Hales, University of Houston-Clear Lake (German Quarterly) "This volume is recommended for both advanced students and scholars working in the field of Weimar cinema and Germanic studies." - Barbara Hales, University of Houston-Clear Lake (German Quarterly)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Empathy Begets Abstraction2. Under the Sign of Insomnia3. Nightwatching4. A Pause in the Action5. Facing the Image6. Necessary AdvancesEpilogue: Music of the Third Kind