VLVL2 (2) Horror films: Art or Commodity?

[Dave Monroe]

And see as well, for starters ...

Kracuaer, Siegfried.  From Caligari to Hitler:
   A Psychological History of the German Film.
   Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1966.

http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/1369.html

http://reserve.libraries.psu.edu/comm/250/25001.pdf

I've even seen this mentioned as a possible-to-likely
source for Pynchon ca. Gravity's Rainbow ...

--- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
> Jancovich notes that horror films emerged in Germany
> during the silent era; expressionistic rather than
> naturalistic, such films were an example of art
> cinema, and "read as high culture rather than low
> culture" because of an association with Romanticism
> and Expressionism....

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