LEADER 03249nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910454130103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95903-0 010 $a9786611959036 010 $a0-226-02057-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226020570 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579127 035 $a(EBL)408413 035 $a(OCoLC)476228948 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224767 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202313 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224767 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210313 035 $a(PQKB)10727870 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117494 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408413 035 $a(DE-B1597)524783 035 $a(OCoLC)304436418 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226020570 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408413 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266080 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195903 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579127 100 $a20070921d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPossessed$b[electronic resource] $ehypnotic crimes, corporate fiction, and the invention of cinema /$fStefan Andriopoulos ; translated by Peter Jansen and Stefan Andriopoulos 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aCinema and modernity 300 $aTranslated from the German. 311 $a0-226-02054-1 320 $aIncludes filmography: p. [163]-170. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-202) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tI. TALES OF HYPNOTIC CRIME -- $tII. INVISIBLE CORPORATE BODIES -- $tIII. STAGING THE HYPNOTIC CRIME -- $tIV. BERNHEIM, CALIGARI, MABUSE: CINEMA AND HYPNOTISM -- $tV. HUMAN AND CORPORATE BODIES IN BROCH AND KAFKA -- $tEPILOGUE -- $tAPPENDIX A. FILMOGRAPHY -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aSilent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over spellbound audiences. Stefan Andriopoulos shows that all this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was no marginal oddity, but rather a pervasive concern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing this preoccupation through the period's films-as well as its legal, medical, and literary te 410 0$aCinema and modernity. 606 $aHypnotism in motion pictures 606 $aHypnotism in literature 606 $aHypnotism and crime 606 $aCorporations$xCorrupt practices 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHypnotism in motion pictures. 615 0$aHypnotism in literature. 615 0$aHypnotism and crime. 615 0$aCorporations$xCorrupt practices. 676 $a791.43/6556 700 $aAndriopoulos$b Stefan$0916904 701 $aAndriopoulos$b Stefan$0916904 701 $aJansen$b Peter$0916905 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454130103321 996 $aPossessed$92055543 997 $aUNINA