Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hans, Anjeana K.
Titre(s) : Warning shadows [Texte imprimé] / Anjeana K. Hans
Publication : Rochester, [New York] : Camden House, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-94 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 20 cm
Collection : German film classics
Lien à la collection : Camden House German film classics
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
"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. ANJEANA K.
HANS is Associate Professor of German Studies and affiliated faculty in Cinema and
Media Studies at Wellesley College"
Sujet(s) : Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination (film)
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.437 2 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Film particulier
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781640140912. - ISBN 1640140913. - ISBN 9781800102750 (erroné). - ISBN 9781800102767
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46909741j
Notice n° :
FRBNF46909741
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: a little-known movie ; The 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 hypntic screen ; The other projection: the Chinese shadow play ; Conclusion:
a more complex history.
