{"product_id":"the-long-centurys-long-shadow-9781487526955","title":"The Long Centurys Long Shadow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Century’s Long Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConnecting Weimar filmmaking to Romantic thought and practice, Kenneth S. Calhoon offers a non-technological, aesthetic genealogy of cinema. He focuses on well-known literary and artistic works, including films such as \u003ci\u003eNosferatu\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMetropolis,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFantasia\u003c\/i\u003e; the writings of Conrad, Kafka, Goethe, and Novalis; and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the leading artists of German Romanticism. With an eye to the modernism of which We\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The study would be of interest to advanced scholars of Weimar cinema well-read in the German and European aesthetic traditions of the nineteenth century. Its richness demands a patient reader, but one who will no doubt be left inspired by what comparative media studies affords to cinema studies.\" -- Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia * \u003cem\u003eEuropeNow\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Drawing on various Romantic texts including paintings, poetry, and prose, as well as expressionist Weimar cinema, Calhoun grounds his interpretations of the marriage between German Romanticism and works of expressionist cinema … This volume is recommended for both advanced students and scholars working in the field of Weimar cinema and Germanic studies.\" -- Barbara Hales, University of Houston-Clear Lake * \u003cem\u003eGerman Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e“This volume is recommended for both advanced students and scholars working in the field of Weimar cinema and Germanic studies.” -- Barbara Hales, University of Houston-Clear Lake * \u003cem\u003eGerman Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   1. Empathy Begets Abstraction   2. Under the Sign of Insomnia   3. Nightwatching   4. A Pause in the Action   5. Facing the Image   6. Necessary Advances   Epilogue: Music of the Third Kind\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409159004503,"sku":"9781487526955","price":41.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487526955.jpg?v=1730505686","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-long-centurys-long-shadow-9781487526955","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}