Possessed [[electronic resource] ] : hypnotic crimes, corporate fiction, and the invention of cinema / / Stefan Andriopoulos ; translated by Peter Jansen and Stefan Andriopoulos

• Autore: Andriopoulos Stefan
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6556
• Soggetto topico: Hypnotism in motion pictures; Hypnotism in literature; Hypnotism and crime; Corporations - Corrupt practices
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AndriopoulosStefan JansenPeter
• Note generali: Translated from the German.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes filmography: p. [163]-170.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-202) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Silent 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Possessed
• ISBN: 1-281-95903-0; 9786611959036; 0-226-02057-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454130103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cinema and modernity.