Katharina Loew

Special Effects and German Silent Film

Techno-Romantic Cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines special effects as the embodiment of a "techno-romantic" paradigm that seeks to harness technology - the epitome of modern materialism - as a means for accessing a spiritual realm. Employed to visualize ideas and emotions in a medium-specific way, special effects thus paved the way for film art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9789463725231
• ISBN-10: 9463725237
• Artikelnr.: 62214232

Autorenporträt

Katharina Loew is Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Special effects and the techno-romantic paradigm
Chapter 1. Imagining technological art: Early German film theory
Chapter 2. Modern magicians: Guido Seeber and Eugen Schüfftan
Chapter 3. The uncanny mirror: Der Student von Prag (1913)
Chapter 4. Visualizing the occult: Nosferatu (1922)
Chapter 5. The technological sublime: Metropolis (1927)
Chapter 6. German technique and Hollywood
Conclusion: Techno-romantic cinema from the silent to the digital era
Bibliography
Index