resignify and rework reality not merely record it construct a selfcontained aesthetic and symbolic world of the imagination radically detached from the everyday Legacy After the end of infla ID: 266651
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Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1922/33; M, 1931), melodramas (Variety, 1923), social dramas (Joyless Street, 1925), and historical epics (Nibelungen, 1924). Style The ÒGerman style.Ó Emphasis on design or mise-en-scne, uncanny atmosphere, and composition (less on story and editing, unlike Hollywood). ÒThe film image must become graphic artÓ (Hermann Warm). Expressionism = Stylization that abstracts and transforms reality as we know it (from the conventions of realistic art) through - photography (unexpected camera angles, little camera movement) - lighting (stark contrasts of light and shadow for various effects) - totally artificial, stylized sets (Òpaintings come to lifeÓ), stripped of all realistic details and psychologyÑsets that become symbolic diagrams of emotional states - overtly theatrical (anti-naturalist) acting style (actors move in jerky - resignify and rework reality (not merely record it) - construct a self-contained aesthetic and symbolic world of the imagination radically detached from the everyday Legacy After the end of inflation in 1924, Weimar reality stabilized and films sought to be realistic, objective, documentary (in accordance with the cool, sober ÒNew ObjectivityÓ in painti constantly changing); - a protest against the ÒduplicationÓ of empirical