German Film Thry Cri
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 1920
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780691031361
Subjects: Pop Arts / Pop Culture
Description: Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not depict battle scenes or soldiers in combat, engaged the war and registered its tragic aftermath. These films reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock, reeling from a devastating defeat that it never officially acknowledged, let alone accepted. Kae.