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The Gorgon's gaze: German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror
Paul Coates
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xiii)
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Introduction: The uncanny and the gorgon's gaze (page 1)
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I Silent cinema and expressionism (page 18)
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II The sleep of reason: Monstrosity and disavowal (page 74)
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III Memory and repression in recent German cinema (page 108)
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IV Expressionism in America (page 156)
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V Elective affinities and family resemblances: For Margarethe von Trotta (page 193)
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Appendixes
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1 Melodrama contra the fantastic: Petro, Elsaesser, and Sirk (page 229)
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2 Early cinema, surrealism, and allegory (page 237)
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3 Modernism and the body as machine (page 239)
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4 The articulation of guilt in Broch's Der Versucher (page 242)
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5 Film noir, Macbeth, and murdered sleep (page 246)
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6 Dissolving the fear of the feminine: Wim Wenders (page 249)
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Notes (page 258)
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Selected bibliography (page 264)
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Filmography (page 274)
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Index (page 281)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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GQ | 68.1 (Winter 1995): 85-87 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/408036 |
GSR | 16.1 (Feb. 1993): 122-123 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1430248 |
FQ | 45.4 (Summer 1992): 44-45 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1212876 |
Citable Link
Published: c1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9781139085908 (ebook)
- 9780521063364 (paper)
- 9780521384094 (hardcover)