GERMAN FUCKING EXPRESSIONISM
1910′s - 1930′s
Mise-en-scène
What appears in the film frame.
In controlling the mise-en-scène, the director stages the event for the camera.
European art movement.
Sought to project inward subjectivity toward.
Representing the experience of the modern world.
Edvard Munch’s Skrik “The Scream”.
A response to modernity and the processes of modernization
Bureaucracy
Economy
Technology
Transportation
City
War.
Influence upon the camera
Max Reinhardt; leading theater producer in Berlin.
Chiaroscuro; treatment of light and shade, illusion of light and dark.
Features of expressionism in film
Style;
Distorted architecture.
Forced perspective.
Emphasis upon corridors and staircases.
Chiaroscuro.
Non-realistic performances.
Narrative;
Tales of the supernatural.
Demonic central figures.
Doppelgangers.
Nosferatu (1922)
Focus on the occult.
The birth of the horror genre ?
Confronting the horror of World War I ?
Realization of psyche as cinema.
Impact upon the camera
Hollywood gothic
Film noir
Contemporary TV.
Filmography (all links to full movie on YouTube)
-Nosferatu (1922) Dir. Murnau.
Recommended viewing (all links to full movie on YouTube)
-The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Dir. Robert Wiene.
-Vincent (1982) Dir. Tim Burton.
Early fucking cinema (here)
The fucking cinema of attraction (here)
Narrative fucking continuity/integration (here)
Silent fucking comedies (here)
Soviet fucking montage (here)
Film fucking noir (here)
Hollywood fucking melodrama (here)
Direct fucking cinema and cinéma fucking vérité (here)
Fucking documentary (here)
New fucking Hollywood (here)











