The Long Century's Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern (German and European Studies) - Hardcover

Calhoon, Kenneth S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1487526954 ISBN 13: 9781487526955

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2021

Synopsis

The Long Century’s Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciprocal illumination. The author investigates different moments and media as connected phenomena, situated at alternate ends of the "long nineteenth century" but joined by their mutual rejection of the neo-classical aesthetic standard of placid and weightless poise in numerous media, including film, painting, sculpture, prose, poetry, and dance.

Connecting Weimar filmmaking to Romantic thought and practice, Kenneth S. Calhoon offers a non-technological, aesthetic genealogy of cinema. He focuses on well-known literary and artistic works, including films such as Nosferatu, Metropolis, Frankenstein, and Fantasia; the writings of Conrad, Kafka, Goethe, and Novalis; and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the leading artists of German Romanticism. With an eye to the modernism of which Weimar filmmaking was a part, The Long Century’s Long Shadow employs the Romantic landscape in poetry and painting as a mirror in which to regard cinema.

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About the Author

Kenneth S. Calhoon is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487526954
• ISBN 13: 9781487526955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288