By Stephen Prince
Part One beneficial properties essays at the silent and classical Hollywood eras. half covers the postWorld warfare II period and discusses the old, aesthetic, and mental features of latest horror motion pictures. unlike horror in the course of the classical Hollywood interval, modern horror positive aspects extra photo and lengthy visualizations of tense and awful imagery, in addition to different distinguishing features. Princes advent presents an summary of the style, contextualizing the readings that follow.
Stephen Prince is professor of communications at Virginia Tech. He has written many movie books, together with Classical movie Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 19301968, and has edited Screening Violence, additionally in the intensity of box Series.
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The title page identifies the story as “Phantastische Filmroman in 6 Akten,” “Fantastic film-novel in six acts” (Mayer and Janowitz, 47). More important, most of these films were artistically ambitious and formed part of the film industry’s deliberate effort to improve its public image. In Germany, the popularity of the cinema in the early years was a source of great worry for many moralists and public reformers, who feared the baleful effects this tawdry but dangerously alluring new amusement might have on impressionable minds.
In the second story, the baleful Dapertutto uses the courtesan Guilietta to trick Hoffmann into giving away his mirror image. In the third, the malevolent Dr. Mirakel persuades the delicate Antonia to sing herself 010 tybjerg (13-39) 12/12/03 9:48 AM Page 22 22 Casper Tybjerg to death. Werner Krauss, who would later play Caligari, had his film debut in the role of Dapertutto. Oswald made films in several genres, but continued in the fantastic genre the following year with Das Bildnis des Dorian Grey (The Picture of Dorian Grey), an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel.
Mirakel persuades the delicate Antonia to sing herself 010 tybjerg (13-39) 12/12/03 9:48 AM Page 22 22 Casper Tybjerg to death. Werner Krauss, who would later play Caligari, had his film debut in the role of Dapertutto. Oswald made films in several genres, but continued in the fantastic genre the following year with Das Bildnis des Dorian Grey (The Picture of Dorian Grey), an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel. The six-part serial Homunculus (1916–1917) was one of the biggest and most acclaimed productions of the war years, but only a confusing print of the fourth part and a fragment of the fifth survives.