Lotte eisner biography definition
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10 great German expressionist films
German expressionism is one of the most recognisable styles of silent cinema, although it can sometimes be slippery to define. Expressionism is an artistic mode that first appeared in poetry and the visual arts at the beginning of the 20th century, before moving into fields such as theatre, architecture and cinema following the First World War. Offering a subjective representation of the world, expressionism descends partly from German Romanticism and reveals the angst of its human figures through their distorted, nightmarish surroundings.
In cinema it is most particularly associated with tilting, impossible sets, high angles and deep shadows. The Italian term chiaroscuro is often used to describe the high-contrast arrangement of light and darkness, but German film critic Lotte Eisner preferred a term from her own language: Helldunkel, which she defined as “a sort of twilight of the German soul, expressing itself in shadowy, enigmatic interiors, or in misty, insubstantial landscapes”.
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German expressionist cinema flourished after the battl
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Recollecting Lotte Eisner: Cinema, Exile, and the Archive
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One Fräulein Doktor Eisner
Two A Reluctant Bellwether: Dr. L. H. Eisner and Flapper at the Film-Kurier, –
Three “La seule historienne” Exile, Salvage, and Community at the Cinémathèque Française
Four “Lacunae Everywhere” Iterative Historiography and the Midcentury Palimpsests
Conclusion The Woolly Mammoth of the Cinémathèque
Appendix Film-Kurier Bibliography, by the Numbers
Notes
References
Index
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Recollecting Lotte Eisner
F e m i n ist M e di a H istor i e s Shelley Stamp, Series Editor Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television, by Annie Berke Violated Frames: Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli’s Sexploits, by Victoria Ruetalo Recollecting Lotte Eisner: Cinema, Exile, and the Archive, by Naomi DeCelles
Recollecting Lotte Eisner Cinema, Exile, and the Archive
Naomi DeCelles
University of Califor nia Pr ess
The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Robert and Meryl Selig Endowment Fund in Film Studies, established in memory of Robert W. Selig.
University of California Press Oakland, California © by Naomi DeCelles Library of Congress Catalog
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