CTCS 200g Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Poetic Realism, Dracula, Strange House
27 May 2016
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Surrealism, poetry, poetic realism, and a touch of anarchy. New objectivity lang comments on the irrational love for rational thinking that had overcome society. Lang"s formative approach : new objectivity meets expressionism. Aton kase uses this term formative approach : trying to talk about nazis without explicitly yelling about it. @ time nazis are gaining power how lang visualizes the world and also uses sound against that vision. Lang was fascinated with the new opportunities that sound afforded for rede ning the relationship between screen and audience. (kaes, 10) Strikingly simple silence used as important part of the soundscape lang actually was the one whistling because peter lorre couldn"t whistle well separation of sound and image. Return of the attraction: shouldn"t one radically break the frame of a sound lm by directly addressing the audience, by turning to them with the help of loudspeakers? (lang, quoted in kaes,
