03128nam 2200721 a 450 991082133940332120200520144314.01-281-95903-097866119590360-226-02057-610.7208/9780226020570(CKB)1000000000579127(EBL)408413(OCoLC)476228948(SSID)ssj0000224767(PQKBManifestationID)11202313(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224767(PQKBWorkID)10210313(PQKB)10727870(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117494(MiAaPQ)EBC408413(DE-B1597)524783(OCoLC)304436418(DE-B1597)9780226020570(Au-PeEL)EBL408413(CaPaEBR)ebr10266080(CaONFJC)MIL195903(EXLCZ)99100000000057912720070921d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPossessed hypnotic crimes, corporate fiction, and the invention of cinema /Stefan Andriopoulos ; translated by Peter Jansen and Stefan Andriopoulos1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (217 p.)Cinema and modernityTranslated from the German.0-226-02054-1 Includes filmography: p. [163]-170.Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-202) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. TALES OF HYPNOTIC CRIME -- II. INVISIBLE CORPORATE BODIES -- III. STAGING THE HYPNOTIC CRIME -- IV. BERNHEIM, CALIGARI, MABUSE: CINEMA AND HYPNOTISM -- V. HUMAN AND CORPORATE BODIES IN BROCH AND KAFKA -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX A. FILMOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXSilent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over spellbound audiences. Stefan Andriopoulos shows that all this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was no marginal oddity, but rather a pervasive concern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing this preoccupation through the period's films-as well as its legal, medical, and literary teCinema and modernity.Hypnotism in motion picturesHypnotism in literatureHypnotism and crimeCorporationsCorrupt practicesHypnotism in motion pictures.Hypnotism in literature.Hypnotism and crime.CorporationsCorrupt practices.791.43/6556Andriopoulos Stefan1596208MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821339403321Possessed3917483UNINA