German Expressionist Cinema

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German Expressionist Cinema

• How much do you know?
• Name the main films we have looked at along with
  their date of release and name of director.
• Which critic has suggested that the expressionist
  films are symptomatic of a growing fascistic
  mindset of the German people during this time?
• Briefly explain how you could support this
  argument.
• How could you argue against this?
• What cinematic devices are characteristic of
  expressionistic film?

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German Expressionist Cinema

• What film is this image from?
• Who is the character?
• What strikes you as being characteristically
  expressionistic about the image?

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German Expressionist Cinema
What film are these images from? What strikes
you as being characteristically expressionistic
about the images?
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German Expressionist Cinema
What film is this image from? What strikes you
as being characteristically expressionistic about
the image?
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German Expressionist Cinema
What film are these images from? What strikes
you as being characteristically expressionistic
about the images?
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German Expressionist Cinema
What film is this image from? What strikes you
as being characteristically expressionistic about
the image?
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German Expressionist Cinema
What film is this image from? What strikes you
as being characteristically expressionistic about
the image?
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German Expressionist Cinema
What film is this image from? What strikes you
as being characteristically expressionistic about
the image?
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German Expressionist Cinema
What film is this image from? What strikes you
as being characteristically expressionistic about
the image?
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German Expressionist Cinema
What film is this image from? What strikes you
as being characteristically expressionistic about
the image?
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German Expressionist Cinema
What film is this image from? What strikes you
as being characteristically expressionistic about
the image?
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German Expressionist Cinema

• So, what do you say to the suggestion that German
  cinema of the 1920s is all about innovative use
  of mise-en-scene, while it was the Soviets who
  really mastered what the camera and the editing
  room can do?

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German Expressionist Cinema

• Expressionist art
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vdWHrow65e8Efeature
  related
• The Red Hot Chili Peppers do Expressionism
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vikxzSFTAU78feature
  related