"Citizenship in a Nightmare Country:" German Expressionist Film and Freud’s Dream Theory
- German Expressionist cinema is a movement that began in 1919. Expressionist film is marked by distinct visual features and performance styles that rebel against prior realist art movements. More than 20 years prior to the Expressionist movement, Sigmund Frued published "The Interpretation of Dreams" in 1899, a ground breaking study that links dreams to unconcious impulses. This thesis argues that the unexplained dream - like imagery found in two Expressionist films, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) and Dr. Mabus, the Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922) - can be seen in terms of Freud's model of dreaming.
| Author: | Erica Tortolani |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-323975 |
| URL: | http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/73 |
| Parent Title (German): | [Rhode Island College] Honors Projects Overview. Paper 73 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Honors Projects Overview / Rhode Island College (73) |
| Publisher: | Digital Initiatives Press: Rhode Island College |
| Place of publication: | Providence |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2013 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/22 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381653404 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zum Film |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
