The haunted screen: expressionism in the German cinema and the influence of Max Reinhardt -- excerpt. Das cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Document author(s):
Lotte H. Eisner
Document source:
University of California Press
Publication date:
1973
Document language:
English
Document type:
book excerpt
Number of pages:
8
Source pagination:
17-21, 23-25
Document contains:
production co
Related films:
Film country(ies):
Germany
Film language(s):
German
Film production company:
Decla-Bioscop AG
Film genre(s):
Feature, Horror, and Thriller
Film subject(s):
  • Authoritarianism -- Drama
  • Carnivals -- Germany -- Drama
  • Hypnotism -- Drama
  • Hypnotism and crime -- Drama
  • Mental illness -- Drama
  • Murder -- Drama
  • Sleepwalking -- Drama
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