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Shell shock cinema : Weimar culture and the wounds of war / Anton Kaes.

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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.

Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Purdy-Kresge Library	PN 1993.5 .G3 K295 2009	CHECKED IN

Description	xi, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject	Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
	World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war.
	World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
	Silent films -- Germany -- History and criticism.
	War and motion pictures.
	Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
	Culture in motion pictures.
ISBN	9780691031361 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	0691031363 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC #	282966375

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