Shell shock cinema Weimar culture and the wounds of war /
| Main Author: | Kaes, Anton. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2009]
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of 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.