directors and authors and quotes Flashcards
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who directed triumph of the will
leni riefenstahl
who directed the mummy
karl freund
who directed the big heat
fritz lang
who directed son of dracula
Robert siodmak
who directed funny games
Michael haneke
who wrote about the grotesque body and grotesque realism, and what did they say? what are some examples of the grotesque body?
Mikhail Bakhtin, he wrote about how the grotesque body is always a political body that exceeds the boundaries and borders that seek to contain it. it is physically abject, it is a figure of unruly biological and social exchange. examples are gender indeterminacy, waking/sleeping, monstrous/gentle.
bakhtins grotesque body and how it differs from body horror r
body horror is development of body becoming more abject or abnormal, about the process– shines light on insecurities around the longevity of the body
what was Edmund burke’s idea
the sublime
what was robin wood’s theory
the monster is that which threatens normality, can take on many forms. the type of monster we see at a particular time often manifests some inherently fraught or fragile tendency within the dominant social order of that time. (monster theory)
what was wilhem Conrad roentgen’s idea
the x ray
what was Etienne-gaspard Robert’s idea and who was he
the phantasmagorical.
who is associated with the gothic (multiple ppl)
Horace Walpole, ann Radcliffe and henry fuseli
what did Darryl jones write about
horror occurs at clear boundaries blurring
George melies info
le manoir du diable, the first horror movie. that early cinematic ghosts were created in part because the tech available motivated their production (performing the vanishing lady also) the most important person in the first decade of horror cinema
what did freud talk about
the uncanny
who directed metropolis
fritz lang
who directed nosferatu
f.w. murnau
who directed caligari
Robert wiene
who directed the student of prague
Stellan rye
who said that weimar films reveal the unconscious motivations of contemporary German society
Krakauer
who said that expressionist films should be understood as the continuation of germanic romantic culture
lotte eisner
who said that some wiemar films should be understood as post traumatic cinema
anton kaes
who said “we are challenged, we are forced to respond, and we are often made aware of our position of being accomplices (instead of witnesses) to the events depicted”?
Michael haneke
who theorized that fear is caused by the indication that something could harm or even destroy us is close at hand
Aristotle
