shell shock cinema, how it relates to caligari, nosfertatu

Question 1

what are shell shock cinema characteristics

Answer 1

characteristics include harsh lighting, fragmented story lines, distorted perspectives, and abrupt endings

Question 2

what does shell shock cinema focus on

Answer 2

focuses on loss and grief

Question 3

some prominent examples of shell shock cinema from weimar era

Answer 3

caligari, nosferatu, die nibelungen, and metropolis

Question 4

who wrote on shell shock cinema post wwi

Answer 4

anton kaes

Question 5

where does shell shock cinema borrow motifs from

Answer 5

borrowed from gothic fiction

Question 6

what does shell shock cinema reject and adopt

Answer 6

rejects cinematic realism by adopting a form that mimics the physical and mental wasteland left behind by the first technological war

Question 7

how does caligari reflect shell shock cinema

Answer 7

caligari preserves the liminal experience of the front more authentically than any naturalist depiction of war and its human consequences

Question 8

how is nosferatu an expression of shell shock cinema

Answer 8

filled with metaphors for war: hutter is naive soldier, goes to the ‘front’ and returns traumatized, his young wife Ellen resembles fear and worry from the homefront, hutter encountering count orlok half buried like a soldier between life and death, Nosferatu’s journey from east to pure west , how orlok is coded as effeminate, animal like, slavic or jewish