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BL
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997883
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b752253
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| Main Entry
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Coates, Paul,1953-
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| Title & Author
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The Gorgon's gaze : : German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror /\ Paul Coates.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in film
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287 pages ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0521063361
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: 9780521063364
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| Notes
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Originally published: 1991.
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Filmography.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-273) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the uncanny and the gorgon's gaze -- Silent cinema and expressionism -- The sleep of reason: monstrosity and disavowal -- Memory and repression in recent German cinema -- Expressionism in America -- Elective affinities and family resemblances: for Margarethe von Trotta -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.
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| Abstract
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'The Gorgon's Gaze' is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early 20th century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism.
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Expressionism.
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Film noir.
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Monsters in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures-- Germany-- History.
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Expressionism.
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Film noir.
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Monsters in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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Germany.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.430943
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| LC Classification
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PN1993.5.G3C64 1991
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| Parallel Title
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German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror
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