Caligari''s Children - The Film As Tale of Terror

"The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar; and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally qu"

List of contents

* Introduction * The Making of a Genre * The Fascination of Fear * Book into Film I: Mamoulians Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde * The Uncanny * Book Into Film II: Dreyers Vampyr * The Iconography of the Terror-film: Wienes Caligari * Beyond Caligari * An image and its Context * Conclusion

About the author

S. S. Prawer is Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature at Oxford University, and a fellow of The Queen's College. His books include studies of Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx.

Summary

"The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar; and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally qu"

Product details

• Authors: S. Prawer, S. S. Prawer, Seigbert S. Prawer, Siegbert Solomon Prawer
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1989
• EAN: 9780306803475
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80347-5
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror, Other performing arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism