FILM 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Murderers Among Us, Herd Mentality, Siegfried Kracauer
22 Dec 2015
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Expressionism longer history in german art and culture: particularly in relation to ww1, brutal war- nature of warfare led to many horrific injuries cities filled with war injured. M: we see aspects of post-war germany in film such as the lost limbs amongst the beggars. Expressionist cinema interior mood is expressed by outward representations lighting, sets, costumes, acting and actors, and sound became expressions of interior moods, emotions, psychological states: a visual representation of the mind and soul. Kammerspiel: creation of psychological realism through image and sound, we feel" what is represented, whistling in m- performed by lang himself- slightly off tune and inconsistent. Murderers among us: original title of film, part of lang"s critique of germany amid the rise of the nazis, siegfried kracauer: the soul faced with the unavoidable alternative of tyranny or chaos . Lang and m: also concerned with desire versus restraint.
