The Asylum Of Dr Caligari

Author : James Morrow
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616962661

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The Asylum of Dr. Caligari by James Morrow Pdf

“No one does history-meets-the-fantastic like Morrow. The Asylum of Dr. Caligari is a great example—Impressionism versus expressionism, psychology in the asylum of ‘dreams,’ the weaponization of art, big laughs and big ideas, a wild imagination, and smooth, subtle writing.” —Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari—sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer. And determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will—for a price—allow governments to parade their troops past his masterpiece: a painting so mesmerizing it can incite entire regiments to rush headlong into battle. The Asylum of Dr. Caligari is a timely tale that is by turns funny and erotic, tender and bayonet-sharp—but ultimately emerges as a love letter to that mysterious, indispensable thing called art.

Author : Mike Budd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:49015001175901

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Mike Budd Pdf

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murderer, and starts spying on him and Dr. Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed, but softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another murder, he abducts her. Jane's father awakens because of the noise, and he and some servants follow the fleeing Cesare. When Cesare cannot outrun his pursuers anymore, he gently places Jane down on the ground...

Author : G. B. Royer
Publisher : 36Linhas
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9798215373064

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari vol 3 by G. B. Royer Pdf

Graphic novel in 3 volumes with over 250 pages.Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the graphic novel, based on the German expressionist film of the same name, released in 1920. Directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, it is considered one of the landmarks of expressionist cinema and one of the most influential films in the history of cinema. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" tells the story of a young man named Francis, who narrates his experiences with Dr. Caligari, a mysterious hypnotist who arrives in a small town accompanied by the sleepwalker Cesare. Caligari uses Cesare to commit murders while he is in a state of induced sleep. The film, through its unique aesthetic, explores themes such as madness, the power of the mind, and manipulation.

Author : Anton Kaes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400831197

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Shell Shock Cinema by Anton Kaes Pdf

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. Kaes uses the term "shell shock"--coined during World War I to describe soldiers suffering from nervous breakdowns--as a metaphor for the psychological wounds that found expression in Weimar cinema. Directors like Robert Wiene, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang portrayed paranoia, panic, and fear of invasion in films peopled with serial killers, mad scientists, and troubled young men. Combining original close textual analysis with extensive archival research, Kaes shows how this post-traumatic cinema of shell shock transformed extreme psychological states into visual expression; how it pushed the limits of cinematic representation with its fragmented story lines, distorted perspectives, and stark lighting; and how it helped create a modernist film language that anticipated film noir and remains incredibly influential today. A compelling contribution to the cultural history of trauma, Shell Shock Cinema exposes how German film gave expression to the loss and acute grief that lay behind Weimar's sleek façade.

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691191348

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From Caligari to Hitler by Siegfried Kracauer Pdf

An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.

Author : Robert V. Adkinson,Robert Wiene,Carl Mayer,Hans Janowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Motion picture)
ISBN : 9306210000

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert V. Adkinson,Robert Wiene,Carl Mayer,Hans Janowitz Pdf

Author : David Hansen-Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317165439

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Civilized Violence by David Hansen-Miller Pdf

Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on what attracts audiences to representations of violence in the first place. Drawing on historical-sociology, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, masculinity studies and textual analysis, David Hansen-Miller explains how the exercise of violence has been concealed and denied by modern society at the same time that it retains considerable power over how we live our lives. He demonstrates how discourses of sexuality and gender, even romantic love, are freighted with the micropolitics of violence. Confronted with such contradictions, audiences are drawn to the cinema where they can see violence graphically restored to everyday life. Popular cinema holds the power to narrate and interpret social forces that have become too opaque, diffuse and dynamic to otherwise comprehend. Through detailed engagement with specific narratives from the last century of popular film - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Sheik, Once Upon a Time in the West, Deliverance - and the pervasive violence of contemporary cinema, Hansen-Miller investigates the manner in which representations can transform our understanding of how violence works.

Author : David Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715182

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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari by David Robinson Pdf

With its jagged, stylised sets, menacing shadows and themes of murder, madness and delirium, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) remains the source and essence of German Expressionist cinema. Fusing carnival spectacle with the paranoia of the psychological thriller, it centres on the haunting, sexually ambivalent presence of Conrad Veidt as Cesare – the somnambulist exploited as an instrument by the sinister Dr. Caligari. David Robinson challenges long accepted versions of the history and reception of Caligari and redefines its relationship to the larger phenomenon of Expressionist art. His reassessment of the relative contributions of director, designers and writers becomes a fascinating detective story, as he investigates the status and significance of the single surviving copy of the original script, which came to light only in the late 1980s when almost all those involved in the production were dead. This second edition features a new introduction that considers the place of German Expressionist cinema within the European revival of Gothic at the turn of the twentieth century, and original cover artwork by Ben Goodman.

Author : Sharon Packer, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786492411

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Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists by Sharon Packer, M.D. Pdf

Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is not cinema's first psychotic charlatan, but he launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more reflect real life clinical controversies. This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, "shock schlock," conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show how fact informs fantasy, and when fantasy trumps reality. Traditional asylum thrillers changed after hospital stays shortened and laws protected people against involuntary commitment. Except for six short "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was.

Author : Dietrich Scheunemann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571130686

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Expressionist Film--new Perspectives by Dietrich Scheunemann Pdf

New essays by leading scholars giving a new picture of the variety of German expressionist cinema.

Author : Robert Wiene,Carl Mayer,Hans Janowitz
Publisher : Lorrimer Publishing Limited
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040050184

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene,Carl Mayer,Hans Janowitz Pdf

SUMMARY: Describes the filmic action and gives the intratitles of the film.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:257075752

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sharon Packer, M.D.,Daniel R. Fredrick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476670980

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Welcome to Arkham Asylum by Sharon Packer, M.D.,Daniel R. Fredrick Pdf

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines reference clinical and ethical controversies that perplex even the most up-to-date professionals. The 25 essays in this collection explore the significance of Arkham's sinister psychiatrists, murderous mental patients, and unethical geneticists. It invites debates about the criminalization of the mentally ill, mental patients who move from defunct state hospitals into expanding prisons, madness versus badness, sociopathy versus psychosis, the "insanity defense" and more. Invoking literary figures from Lovecraft to Poe to Caligari, the 25 essays in this collection are a broad-ranging and thorough assessment of the franchise and its relationship to contemporary psychiatry.

Author : Frank McDonough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803284767

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The Weimar Years by Frank McDonough Pdf

A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Established in 1918–19, in the wake of Germany's catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. At its beginning, Weimar held out the hope that democracy, stability and prosperity would take root in Germany, but it was beset by frequent changes of government, waves of economic upheaval and spasms of violence of increasing intensity between the forces of left and right. Agitation and assassination by rightwing nationalists – enraged by the severity of the Treaty of Versailles and the acceptance of its terms by liberal German politicians – formed a threatening descant to the conciliatory efforts of successive coalition governments. Ultimately, the instabilities of Weimar would lead to the appointment as German Chancellor of the Nazi Fu ̈hrer Adolf Hitler, who created a one-party dictatorship that abandoned the rule of law, democracy and civil rights. In the words of Gustav Stresemann, Germany's Nobel Peace Prize-winning Foreign Minister from 1923 to 1929, Weimar democracy was 'dancing on a volcano'. The Weimar Years is a vivid and compelling narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature. McDonough places particular focus on the parliamentary history of Weimar, arguing that it was the failure of parliamentary democracy to bring stability that eroded public confidence and allowed the power of the elected Reichstag to gradually diminish, culminating in Hitler's accession to power in January 1933. The Weimar Years is the tragic story of a rise and fall, as well as a warning of how, under poor leadership, economic pressure and unrelenting political volatility, a democracy can drift towards a form of authoritarian rule that eventually destroys it.

Author : Ernest Mathijs,Xavier Mendik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714000

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100 Cult Films by Ernest Mathijs,Xavier Mendik Pdf

Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences. Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spinal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings. Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music). 100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch. Drawing on exclusive interviews with some of the world's most iconic cult creators and performers, including Dario Argento, Pupi Avati, Alex Cox, Ruggero Deodato, Jesús Franco, Lloyd Kaufman, Harry Kümel, H. G. Lewis, Christina Lindberg, Takashi Miike, Franco Nero, George A. Romero and Brian Yuzna, and featuring a foreword by cult director Joe Dante, 100 Cult Films is your ultimate ticket to the midnight movie show.