The Long Century's Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
Kenneth S. Calhoon, "The Long Century's Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern "
English | ISBN: 1487526954 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 16 MB
English | ISBN: 1487526954 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 16 MB
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.
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