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Author:

Kaes, Anton.

Title:

Shell shock cinema : Weimar culture and the wounds of war / Anton Kaes.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xi, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war.
World War, 1914-1918--Influence.
Silent films--Germany--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.

Notes:

Filmography: p. 251-165. Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-297) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0691031363
9780691031361 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)282966375

LCCN:

2008053044

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)