HISTART 2901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Robert Wiene, Silent Film, Hamburg Wallring
22 Feb 2017
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The silent era and the development of narrative form: 1913-1925: germany: weimar cinema and expressionism. German government continued to fund cinema during the war, and then after the war, film was privatized. Here they introduced a vocabulary of new visual forms; innovations of german filmmakers were developed and secured largely by the absence of particular innovations taking place in america--german cinema was very conservative. This conservatism can perhaps be best seen through expressionism, or german expressionism. As was the case during the primitive era, german filmmakers took inspiration from the theater. This theater, however, was associated with the avant-garde, progressive movement in the arts. Expressionism has no true bounds--it could be seen through painting as well as music, literature, etc It can be called a revolt to naturalism, the latest incarnation of the long-standing belief that the purpose of art was to represent with the utmost fidelity the appearance of the world.
