Warning Shadows by Professor Anjeana K. Hans (English) Paperback Book

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A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.

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A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.Artur Robison's Warning Shadows - in German simply Schatten, shadows - premiered in 1923 to critical acclaim. This story of a fateful dinner party at which a flirtatious wife, her jealous husband, and their guests are entertained by a traveling illusionist who deals in shadow play and hypnosis was extolled by one critic as superior to Wegener's Golem, Lubitsch's Passion, even Murnau's Nosferatu and Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Yet where those films became mainstays of film history, Warning Shadows was long unknown: only recently, with the release of a restored version on DVD, has it begun to get its due. One of the few silent movies to eschew intertitles, it was an attempt to create a "pure film," drawing on the qualities of cinema that made it not an heir to literature or theater but a unique and autonomous art form. Staging a story of desire, adultery, and violence, Robison's film also engaged with discourses at the heart of Weimar culture, from changing gender norms to hysteria and hypnosis to the construction of spectatorship. Seen this way, Warning Shadows is both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.

Author Biography

Anjeana K. Hans is Associate Professor of German Studies at Wellesley College.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Little-Known MovieThe Making of the MovieDefining Film: Art Form or Public Danger?A Film "Full of Eroticism"Projections within ProjectionsThe Illusionist: Magic, Control, and ArtSpectators Become ActorsHypnotism: Therapy and Spectacle"This Magical Therapy"What Lies Beneath: Gender and ViolenceThe Hypnotic ScreenThe Other Projection: The Chinese Shadow PlayConclusion: A More Complex HistoryCreditsNotes

Review

Hans works knowledgeably through the production and performance history of Artur Robison's hallucinatory chamber-play (Kammerspiel) fantasy, which dispenses entirely with intertitles. ...She illuminates the historical and cultural contexts in which the specific aesthetic configuration of the relationship between cinematic-scenic representation and a viewer oscillating between detachment and affect can be located * FILMBLATT *

Details ISBN1640140913 Series Camden House German Film Classics Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1640140913 ISBN-13 9781640140912 Format Paperback Series Number 8 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint Camden House Inc Place of Publication Columbia, MD Country of Publication United States Pages 102 Publication Date 2021-09-15 UK Release Date 2021-09-15 AU Release Date 2021-09-15 NZ Release Date 2021-09-15 US Release Date 2021-09-15 Author Anjeana K. Hans Illustrations 31 colour and 2 b/w illus. DEWEY 791.4372 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9781800102750 We've got this

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