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| Publication date |
2010
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| Book title |
Weimar cinema, 1919-1933: daydreams and nightmares
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| ISBN |
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| Pages (from-to) |
24-43
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| Number of pages |
20
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| Publisher |
New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
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| Abstract |
From the beginnings the German film contained dynamite.... Chaos spread in Germany from 1918 to about 1923, and as its consequence the panic-stricken German mind was released from all the conventions that usually limit life. Under such conditions, the unhappy, homeless soul not only drove straightway toward the fantastic region of horrors, but also moved like a stranger through the world of normal reality. . . . That free-wandering soul imagined the madmen, somnambulists, vampires and murderers who were haunting the expressionistic settings of the Caligari-film and its like.
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| Document type |
Chapter
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| Note |
Gebeurtenis: Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 17, 2010-March 7, 2011
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| Language |
English
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