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Author : Lotte H. Eisner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520022850
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Murnau written by Lotte H. Eisner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jens Rymes
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638431398
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)
Download or read book A Devil Sick of Sin: Images of Death and Disease in Murnau's "Nosferatu" written by Jens Rymes and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Cinema and Society, Kino und Gesellschaft, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1 Introduction In adapting Stoker’s Dracula, Murnau has made quite a few changes to the original plot. Some of them were made due to economic and practical reasons, such as moving the setting and locations to Germany, some of them in order to avoid charges of copyright infringement, such as changing the characters’ names, as Murnau was not authorised to make an adaptation. However, Murnau doesn’t simply copy Dracula. Stoker’s novel about the intrusion of an alien evil into English society is transformed into a story mirroring the fears that prevailed in Germany in the late 1910’s. Screenwriter Henrik Galeen and di¬rector Murnau were obviously influenced by the impressions that both World War I and the influenza pandemic had left. The war had left large areas in Central Europe in ruins and had triggered many political changes. Often, the new-founded Weimar Republic was seen as weak and incapable of acting. Moreover, the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918 proved no less devastating, ranking “with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics.”(1) Assisted by large troop movements and disastrous hygienic con¬ditions after the armistice, the disease spread across the globe within less than three months. Physicians and scientist were helpless. There was no immunization available: the influenza virus could not be isolated and positively identified as the pathogene until 1932. In fact, even today there are no means of preventing another influenza epidemic(2) . Murnau begins with a caption that presents the movie as a record of an epidemic: “Aufzeichnung über das große Sterben in Wisborg.” The vampire is not the party animal that Lugosi impersonated; instead, Murnau draws on a tradition that associates vampires with unexpected or inexplicable death. His creature feeds on a society which is defenseless against him, either because its members are too weakened or too terrified to take action. Thus, though set almost one hundred years in the past, Nosferatu presents an actualisation of Dracula. [...] ______ (1) Potter, C.W. “A history of influenza”. Journal of Applied Microbiology 31. 2001: 575. (2) cf. ibid., 572.
Author : Les Hammer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781618631824
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (318 download)
Download or read book F. W. Murnau written by Les Hammer and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent film historian Anthony Slide (Nitrate Won't Wait, Silent Players) hails the work of Les Hammer in F.W. Murnau: For the Record - the book that shatters the myth surrounding the accidental death of the silent film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1931. In his book, the author refutes the twice-told tale of sex and death in Kenneth Anger's notorious expose 'Hollywood Babylon', reveals the identity of the valet who was involved in the fatal accident and restores the illustrious name and reputation of the man whom director Werner Herzog praises as "the greatest filmmaker in Germany" - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
Author : Rob White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579583286
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)
Download or read book British Film Institute Film Classics written by Rob White and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jo Leslie Collier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From Wagner to Murnau written by Jo Leslie Collier and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822338215
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Looking Past the Screen written by Jon Lewis and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history./div
Author : ans-Michael Bock,,
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857455659
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)
Download or read book The Concise Cinegraph written by ans-Michael Bock,, and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language. This condensed and substantially revised English-language edition makes this important resource available to students and researchers for the first time outside its German context. It offers a representative historical overview through bio-filmographical entries on the main protagonists, from the beginnings to the present day. Included are directors and actors, writers and cameramen, composers and production designers, film theorists and critics, producers and distributors, inventors and manufacturers. An appendix includes short introductory essays on specific periods and movements, such as Early Film, Weimar, Nazi Cinema, DEFA, New German Cinema, and German film since unification, as well as on cinematic developments in Austria and Switzerland. Sections that crossreference names around specific professional groups and themes will prove equally invaluable to researchers.
Author : Cristina Massaccesi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800346816
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Nosferatu written by Cristina Massaccesi and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravels the never-ending fascination exercised by the film and provides a clear guide to the film's contexts, cinematography, and possible interpretations, covering the political and social contexts.
Author : Josef Raab
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825800393
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA written by Josef Raab and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas the cultural and political influence of the U.S. on Europe and Germany has been researched extensively, the impact of more than 6 million German immigrants on U.S.-American history and culture has received far less scholarly attention. Therefore this volume addresses a wide range of areas in which a German presence has been manifesting itself in the U.S. for more than three centuries. Among the disciplines involved in this broad analysis are linguistics, literary studies, history, economics, musicology as well as media studies and cultural studies.
Author : Patrick Keating
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548958
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Dynamic Frame written by Patrick Keating and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style. In careful readings of dozens of films, including Sunrise, The Grapes of Wrath, Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, Keating explores how major figures such as F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes. Balancing close analysis with a broader poetics of camera movement, Keating uses archival research to chronicle the technological breakthroughs and the changing division of labor that allowed for new possibilities, as well as the shifting political and cultural contexts that inspired filmmakers to use technology in new ways. An original history of film techniques and aesthetics, The Dynamic Frame shows that the classical Hollywood camera moves not to imitate the actions of an omniscient observer but rather to produce the interplay of concealment and revelation that is an essential part of the exchange between film and viewer.
Author : Tag Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520063341
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book John Ford written by Tag Gallagher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radical re-reading of Ford's work studies his films in the context of his complex character, demonstrating their immense intelligence and their profound critique of our culture.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Chronicle of Cinema, 1895-1995: 1920-1940, Murnau's "Nosferatu" to Ford's "Stagecoach" written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674114609
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Child of Paradise written by Edward Baron Turk and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the career of the influential French director and uses psychoanalytical concepts to analyze his major films.
Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928970
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Films of Werner Herzog written by Timothy Corrigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given Herzog’s own pronouncement that ‘film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,’ it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and philosophically ambitious and at the same time provocatively eccentric, Herzog’s films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation. Even as Herzog’s rebellious images have gained him a reputation as a master of the German New Wave, he has been attacked for indulging in a romantic naiveté and wilful self-absorption. To his hardest critics, Herzog’s films appear as little more than Hollywood fantasies disguised as high seriousness. This book is an attempt to illuminate these contradictions. It gathers essays that focus from a variety of angles on Herzog and his work. The contributors move beyond the myths of Herzog to investigate the merits of his work and its place in film history. A challenging range of films is covered, from Fata Morgana and Aguirre, the Wrath of God to more recent features such as Nosferatu and Where the Green Ants Dream, offering the reader ways of understanding why, whatever the controversies surrounding Herzog and his films, he remains a major and popular international filmmaker. Orignally published in 1986.
Author : Kelly Jones
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101545143
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Woman Who Heard Color written by Kelly Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new novel from the author of The Seventh Unicorn and The Lost Madonna..."Kelly Jones is a wonderful writer, and definitely one to watch." -Nicholas Sparks Lauren O'Farrell is an "art detective" who made it her mission to retrieve invaluable artworks stolen by the Nazis during the darkest days of World War II. Her quest leads her to the Manhattan apartment of elderly Isabella Fletcher, a woman who lives in the shadow of a terrible history-years ago her mother was rumored to have collaborated with the Nazis. But as Isabella reveals the events of her mother's life, Lauren finds herself immersed in an amazing story of courage and secrecy as she discovers the extraordinary truth about a priceless piece of art that may have survived the war and the enduring relationship between a mother and a daughter.
Author : Angela Dalle Vacche
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292715837
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Cinema and Painting written by Angela Dalle Vacche and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche discusses how the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition and modernity. Specifically, Dalle Vacche explores Jean-Luc Godard's iconophobia (Pierrot Le Fou) and Andrei Tarkovsky's iconophilia (Andrei Rubleov), Kenji Mizoguchi's split allegiances between East and West (Five Women around Utamaro), Michelangelo Antonioni's melodramatic sensibility (Red Desert), Eric Rohmer's project to convey interiority through images (The Marquise of O), F. W. Murnau's debt to Romantic landscape painting (Nosferatu), Vincente Minnelli's affinities with American Abstract Expressionism (An American in Paris), and Alain Cavalier's use of still life and the close-up to explore the realms of mysticism and femininity (Thérèse). While addressing issues of influence and intentionality, Dalle Vacche concludes that intertextuality is central to an appreciation of the dialogical nature of the filmic medium, which, in appropriating or rejecting art history, defines itself in relation to national traditions and broadly shared visual cultures.
Author : Daniel Eagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441175415
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book America's Film Legacy written by Daniel Eagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birth of a Nation, and Boyz n the Hood. Others are more obscure, such as Blacksmith Scene, The Blue Bird, The Docks of New York, Star Theatre, and A Bronx Morning. Daniel Eagan's beautifully written and authoritative book is for anyone who loves American movies and who wants to learn more about them.
