Murnau

Author : Lotte H. Eisner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520022858

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Murnau by Lotte H. Eisner Pdf

Author : Jens Rymes
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638431392

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A Devil Sick of Sin: Images of Death and Disease in Murnau's "Nosferatu" by Jens Rymes Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Cinema and Society, Kino und Gesellschaft, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1 Introduction In adapting Stoker’s Dracula, Murnau has made quite a few changes to the original plot. Some of them were made due to economic and practical reasons, such as moving the setting and locations to Germany, some of them in order to avoid charges of copyright infringement, such as changing the characters’ names, as Murnau was not authorised to make an adaptation. However, Murnau doesn’t simply copy Dracula. Stoker’s novel about the intrusion of an alien evil into English society is transformed into a story mirroring the fears that prevailed in Germany in the late 1910’s. Screenwriter Henrik Galeen and di¬rector Murnau were obviously influenced by the impressions that both World War I and the influenza pandemic had left. The war had left large areas in Central Europe in ruins and had triggered many political changes. Often, the new-founded Weimar Republic was seen as weak and incapable of acting. Moreover, the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918 proved no less devastating, ranking “with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics.”(1) Assisted by large troop movements and disastrous hygienic con¬ditions after the armistice, the disease spread across the globe within less than three months. Physicians and scientist were helpless. There was no immunization available: the influenza virus could not be isolated and positively identified as the pathogene until 1932. In fact, even today there are no means of preventing another influenza epidemic(2) . Murnau begins with a caption that presents the movie as a record of an epidemic: “Aufzeichnung über das große Sterben in Wisborg.” The vampire is not the party animal that Lugosi impersonated; instead, Murnau draws on a tradition that associates vampires with unexpected or inexplicable death. His creature feeds on a society which is defenseless against him, either because its members are too weakened or too terrified to take action. Thus, though set almost one hundred years in the past, Nosferatu presents an actualisation of Dracula. [...] ______ (1) Potter, C.W. “A history of influenza”. Journal of Applied Microbiology 31. 2001: 575. (2) cf. ibid., 572.

Author : Rob White,Edward Buscombe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1579583288

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British Film Institute Film Classics by Rob White,Edward Buscombe Pdf

Author : Jo Leslie Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012991314

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From Wagner to Murnau by Jo Leslie Collier Pdf

Author : ans-Michael Bock,,,im Bergfelder,,
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857455656

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The Concise Cinegraph by ans-Michael Bock,,,im Bergfelder,, Pdf

This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language. This condensed and substantially revised English-language edition makes this important resource available to students and researchers for the first time outside its German context. It offers a representative historical overview through bio-filmographical entries on the main protagonists, from the beginnings to the present day. Included are directors and actors, writers and cameramen, composers and production designers, film theorists and critics, producers and distributors, inventors and manufacturers. An appendix includes short introductory essays on specific periods and movements, such as Early Film, Weimar, Nazi Cinema, DEFA, New German Cinema, and German film since unification, as well as on cinematic developments in Austria and Switzerland. Sections that crossreference names around specific professional groups and themes will prove equally invaluable to researchers.

Author : Jon Lewis,Eric Loren Smoodin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822338211

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Looking Past the Screen by Jon Lewis,Eric Loren Smoodin Pdf

DIVA collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history./div

Author : Cristina Massaccesi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800346819

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Nosferatu by Cristina Massaccesi Pdf

Unravels the never-ending fascination exercised by the film and provides a clear guide to the film's contexts, cinematography, and possible interpretations, covering the political and social contexts.

Author : Josef Raab,Jan Wirrer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 9783825800390

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Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA by Josef Raab,Jan Wirrer Pdf

Whereas the cultural and political influence of the U.S. on Europe and Germany has been researched extensively, the impact of more than 6 million German immigrants on U.S.-American history and culture has received far less scholarly attention. Therefore this volume addresses a wide range of areas in which a German presence has been manifesting itself in the U.S. for more than three centuries. Among the disciplines involved in this broad analysis are linguistics, literary studies, history, economics, musicology as well as media studies and cultural studies.

Author : Patrick Keating
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231548953

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The Dynamic Frame by Patrick Keating Pdf

The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style. In careful readings of dozens of films, including Sunrise, The Grapes of Wrath, Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, Keating explores how major figures such as F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes. Balancing close analysis with a broader poetics of camera movement, Keating uses archival research to chronicle the technological breakthroughs and the changing division of labor that allowed for new possibilities, as well as the shifting political and cultural contexts that inspired filmmakers to use technology in new ways. An original history of film techniques and aesthetics, The Dynamic Frame shows that the classical Hollywood camera moves not to imitate the actions of an omniscient observer but rather to produce the interplay of concealment and revelation that is an essential part of the exchange between film and viewer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UCSC:32106019132882

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The Chronicle of Cinema, 1895-1995: 1920-1940, Murnau's "Nosferatu" to Ford's "Stagecoach" by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674114604

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Child of Paradise by Edward Baron Turk Pdf

Traces the career of the influential French director and uses psychoanalytical concepts to analyze his major films.

Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317928973

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The Films of Werner Herzog by Timothy Corrigan Pdf

Given Herzog’s own pronouncement that ‘film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,’ it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and philosophically ambitious and at the same time provocatively eccentric, Herzog’s films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation. Even as Herzog’s rebellious images have gained him a reputation as a master of the German New Wave, he has been attacked for indulging in a romantic naiveté and wilful self-absorption. To his hardest critics, Herzog’s films appear as little more than Hollywood fantasies disguised as high seriousness. This book is an attempt to illuminate these contradictions. It gathers essays that focus from a variety of angles on Herzog and his work. The contributors move beyond the myths of Herzog to investigate the merits of his work and its place in film history. A challenging range of films is covered, from Fata Morgana and Aguirre, the Wrath of God to more recent features such as Nosferatu and Where the Green Ants Dream, offering the reader ways of understanding why, whatever the controversies surrounding Herzog and his films, he remains a major and popular international filmmaker. Orignally published in 1986.

Author : Daniel Eagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441175410

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America's Film Legacy by Daniel Eagan Pdf

America's Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birth of a Nation, and Boyz n the Hood. Others are more obscure, such as Blacksmith Scene, The Blue Bird, The Docks of New York, Star Theatre, and A Bronx Morning. Daniel Eagan's beautifully written and authoritative book is for anyone who loves American movies and who wants to learn more about them.

Author : Angela Dalle Vacche
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292715838

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Cinema and Painting by Angela Dalle Vacche Pdf

The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche discusses how the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition and modernity. Specifically, Dalle Vacche explores Jean-Luc Godard's iconophobia (Pierrot Le Fou) and Andrei Tarkovsky's iconophilia (Andrei Rubleov), Kenji Mizoguchi's split allegiances between East and West (Five Women around Utamaro), Michelangelo Antonioni's melodramatic sensibility (Red Desert), Eric Rohmer's project to convey interiority through images (The Marquise of O), F. W. Murnau's debt to Romantic landscape painting (Nosferatu), Vincente Minnelli's affinities with American Abstract Expressionism (An American in Paris), and Alain Cavalier's use of still life and the close-up to explore the realms of mysticism and femininity (Thérèse). While addressing issues of influence and intentionality, Dalle Vacche concludes that intertextuality is central to an appreciation of the dialogical nature of the filmic medium, which, in appropriating or rejecting art history, defines itself in relation to national traditions and broadly shared visual cultures.

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780191518188

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The Oxford History of World Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Pdf

The Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema ever undertaken. It traces the history of the twentieth-century's most enduringly popular entertainment form, covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact. The book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the Avant-Garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong, with an international team of distinguished film historians telling the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel. Other chapters outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world - the varied and distinctive filmic traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. Also included are over 140 special inset features on the film-makers and personalities - Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman - who have had an enduring impact in popular memory and cinematic lore. With over 300 illustrations, a full bibliography, and an extensive index, The Oxford History of World Cinema is an invaluable and entertaining guide and resource for the student and general reader.