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Shell shock cinema : Weimar culture and the wounds of war
- Title
- Shell shock cinema : Weimar culture and the wounds of war / Anton Kaes.
- Author
- Kaes, Anton.
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 312 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The war at home. The wounded soldier -- The spirit of 1914 -- Film and nation -- The battle of images -- A medium for deception -- The new empire -- Mental breakdowns -- Tales from the asylum. War neurotics -- Recovering the past -- Phantoms and freaks -- From Dr. Charcot to Dr. Caligari -- Madness as resistance -- The Hitler connection -- Shattered space -- The return of the undead. The lost generation -- Mass death -- Dracula revisited -- A community under siege -- Hysteria on the home front -- The allure of the occult -- The work of mourning -- Myth, murder, and revenge. The national project -- Posing for Germany -- The will to form -- The fallen hero -- Excursus: Lang in World War I -- The sacred battle -- The end of violence -- The industrial battlefield. Rise of the machines -- Moloch war -- Lang's America -- The hunger for religion -- The workers' revolt -- Destruction and regeneration -- Aftershocks -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- MFL 10-485
- ISBN
- 9780691031361 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0691031363 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008053044
- OCLC
- YBP 2008053044
- Author
- Kaes, Anton.
- Title
- Shell shock cinema : Weimar culture and the wounds of war / Anton Kaes.
- Imprint
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 10-485