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The Gorgon's gaze: German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror

Coates, Paul, 1953-

Year: c1991.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The uncanny and the gorgon's gaze

I Silent cinema and expressionism

II The sleep of reason: Monstrosity and disavowal

III Memory and repression in recent German cinema

IV Expressionism in America

V Elective affinities and family resemblances: For Margarethe von Trotta

Appendixes

1 Melodrama contra the fantastic: Petro, Elsaesser, and Sirk

2 Early cinema, surrealism, and allegory

3 Modernism and the body as machine

4 The articulation of guilt in Broch's Der Versucher

5 Film noir, Macbeth, and murdered sleep

6 Dissolving the fear of the feminine: Wim Wenders

Notes

Selected bibliography

Filmography

Index

reviews

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Title:

The Gorgon's gaze : German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror / Paul Coates.

Author:

Coates, Paul, 1953-

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The Gorgon's gaze : German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror / Paul Coates.
Coates, Paul, 1953-
Cambridge [U.K.]: Cambridge University Press, c1991.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07631

Subject Headings:

• Motion pictures -- Germany -- History
• Expressionism
• Monsters in motion pictures
• Film noir

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