Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The uncanny and the gorgon's gaze
- I Silent cinema and expressionism
- II The sleep of reason: Monstrosity and disavowal
- III Memory and repression in recent German cinema
- IV Expressionism in America
- V Elective affinities and family resemblances: For Margarethe von Trotta
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The uncanny and the gorgon's gaze
- I Silent cinema and expressionism
- II The sleep of reason: Monstrosity and disavowal
- III Memory and repression in recent German cinema
- IV Expressionism in America
- V Elective affinities and family resemblances: For Margarethe von Trotta
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
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- The Gorgon's GazeGerman Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991