{"product_id":"afterlives-allegories-of-film-and-mortality-in-early-weimar-germany-9781501317729","title":"Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steve Choe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeimar cultural critics and intellectuals have repeatedly linked the dynamic movement of the cinema to discourses of life and animation. Correspondingly, recent film historians and theorists have taken up these discourses to theorize the moving image, both in analog and digital. But, many important issues are overlooked. Combining close readings of individual films with detailed interpretations of philosophical texts, all produced in Weimar Germany immediately following the Great War, \u003ci\u003eAfterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany\u003c\/i\u003e shows how these films teach viewers about living and dying within a modern, mass mediated context. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChoe places relatively underanalyzed films such as F. W. Murnau's \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Castle\u003c\/i\u003e and Arthur Robison's \u003ci\u003eWarning Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e alongside Martin Heidegger's early seminars on phenomenology, Sigmund Freud's \u003ci\u003eReflections upon War and Death\u003c\/i\u003e and Max Scheler's critique of \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the experience of war trauma that underpins these correspondences, and Choe foregrounds life and death in the films by highlighting how they allegorize this opposition through the thematics of animation and stasis.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082021658775,"sku":"9781501317729","price":4981.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501317729.webp?v=1767142473","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/afterlives-allegories-of-film-and-mortality-in-early-weimar-germany-9781501317729","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}