Expressionism


Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Metamorphosis
We
The Golem
The Hairy Ape
The Trial
The Castle
Machinal
The Thief and Other Stories
Marianne von Werefkin (Great Masters in Art)
Woyzeck
Severin's Journey into the Dark: A Prague Ghost Story
The Poems of Georg Trakl
Poems and Prose
Selected Poems and Prose
A basic premise of Expressionism was that mise-en-scène - the visual space of the film (as well as of fiction, theatrical presentation, and painting) - should express the stressed psychological state of either its main character, or more universally, the culture at large. Edvard Munch's painting The Scream (1893) best exemplifies this effect, though it actually predates and influenced the Expressionist movement. This painting of a figure on a bridge, standing in front of a violent multicolored s ...more
Robert Kolker, Film form and Culture

Monica Laura Rapeanu
C10 (or the king's carolers – from student times) on the side stairway, we gather in the evening, many the cold cement steps welcome us as if we were the king's carolers we have mulled wine and dry snacks the orange guitar stretches and warps in the candlelight we take another drag from the cigarette, nibble on sticks and salty biscuits happiness pricks our veins with Burmese nails One floor below, behind the door 'Mr. Blues - Don't Disturb' the tasty rot of jazz caresses our toes We sin in th ...more
Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

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