THTRFLM 3FF3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Siegfried Kracauer, Tyrant, Vsevolod Meyerhold
21 Dec 2019
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The famous case of german expressionism (andrew tudor) (exam question part 4 big time) Displaced setting of lms in this period (displaced to a fantasy world) - if not displaced than distorted. Social setting of lms in this period are represented by people who suffer. Larger world is usually presented as a mob of unspeci ed people. Abstraction reduces reality to its most basic elements, in doing so artist hope to reveal essences that lay underneath everyday representations of reality . Distortion is a key idea that one nds in expressionist cinema. Disharmony is the base from which stories develop in narrative cinema. The role of the tyrant raises issues regarding absolute authority. Tudor looks at the social models to explain why the lms look the way the do: He argues that a rapidly changing society moved too fast for the belief systems of the people.
