Shell shock cinema
Subtitle: Weimar culture and the wounds of war
By: Anton Kaes.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691031361
Subjects: 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; War and motion pictures; Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Culture in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The war at home. The wounded soldier; title: The spirit of 1914; title: Film and nation; title: The battle of images; title: A medium for deception; title: The new empire; title: Mental breakdowns; title: Notes from the asylum. War neurotics; title: Recovering the past; title: Phantoms and freaks; title: From Dr. Charcot to Dr. Caligari; title: Madness as resistance; title: the Hitler connection; title: Shattered space; title: The return of the undead. The lost generation; title: Mass death; title: Dracula revisited; title: A community under siege; title: Hysteria on the home front; title: The allure of the occult; title: The work of mourning; title: Myth, murder, and revenge. The national project; title: Posing for Germany; title: The will to form; title: The fallen hero; title: Excursus: Lang in World War I; title: The sacred battle; title: The end of violence; title: Apocalypse redux. Rise of the machines; title: Moloch war; title: The American alternative; title: The hunger for religion; title: The workers' revolt; title: Destruction and regeneration; title: Aftershocks; title: Epilogue.