Artur Robison’s
Warning Shadows – in German simply
Schatten, shadows – premiered in 1923 to critical acclaim. This story of a fateful dinner party at which a flirtatious wife, her jealous husband, and their guests are entertained by a traveling illusionist who deals in shadow play and hypnosis was extolled by one critic as superior to Wegener’s
Golem, Lubitsch’s
Passion, even Murnau’s
Nosferatu and Wiene’s
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Yet where those films became mainstays of film history,
Warning Shadows was long unknown: only recently, with the release of a restored version on DVD, has it begun to get its due. One of the few silent movies to eschew intertitles, it was an attempt to create a ‘pure film, ‘ drawing on the qualities of cinema that made it not an heir to literature or theater but a unique and autonomous art form. Staging a story of desire, adultery, and violence, Robison’s film also engaged with discourses at the heart of Weimar culture, from changing gender norms to hysteria and hypnosis to the construction of spectatorship. Seen this way,
Warning Shadows is both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.
Warning Shadows – in German simply
Schatten, shadows – premiered in 1923 to critical acclaim. This story of a fateful dinner party at which a flirtatious wife, her jealous husband, and their guests are entertained by a traveling illusionist who deals in shadow play and hypnosis was extolled by one critic as superior to Wegener’s
Golem, Lubitsch’s
Passion, even Murnau’s
Nosferatu and Wiene’s
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Yet where those films became mainstays of film history,
Warning Shadows was long unknown: only recently, with the release of a restored version on DVD, has it begun to get its due. One of the few silent movies to eschew intertitles, it was an attempt to create a ‘pure film, ‘ drawing on the qualities of cinema that made it not an heir to literature or theater but a unique and autonomous art form. Staging a story of desire, adultery, and violence, Robison’s film also engaged with discourses at the heart of Weimar culture, from changing gender norms to hysteria and hypnosis to the construction of spectatorship. Seen this way,
Warning Shadows is both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.
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表中的内容
Introduction: A Little-Known MovieThe Making of the Movie
Defining Film: Art Form or Public Danger?
A Film ‘Full of Eroticism’
Projections within Projections
The Illusionist: Magic, Control, and Art
Spectators Become Actors
Hypnotism: Therapy and Spectacle
‘This Magical Therapy’
What Lies Beneath: Gender and Violence
The Hypnotic Screen
The Other Projection: The Chinese Shadow Play
Conclusion: A More Complex History
Credits
Notes
关于作者
Anjeana K. Hans is Associate Professor of German Studies at Wellesley College.购买此电子书可免费获赠一本！
语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 102 ● ISBN 9781800102750 ● 文件大小 12.7 MB ● 出版者 Boydell & Brewer ● 市 Rochester ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2021 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7894538 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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