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Cinema outside Germany benefited both from the emigration of German film makers and from German expressionist developments in style and technique that were apparent on the screen. The new look and techniques impressed other contemporary film makers, artists and cinematographers, and they began to incorporate the new style into their work.
Expressionist music would "thus reject the depictive, sensual qualities that had come to be associated with impressionist music. It would endeavor instead to realize its own purely musical nature—in part by disregarding compositional conventions that placed 'outer' restrictions on the expression of 'inner' visions".
Pages in category "German Expressionist films" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Shattered (1921 film) The Street (1923 film)
Early modernist film came to maturity in the era between WWI and WWII, with characteristics such as montage and symbolic imagery, manifesting itself in genres as diverse as expressionism and surrealism (as featured in the works of Fritz Lang and Luis Buñuel) [1] while postmodernist film – similar to postmodernism as a whole – is a reaction to modernist works, and to their tendencies (such ...
The self-deluded lead characters in many expressionist films echo Goethe's Faust, and Murnau indeed retold the tale in his film Faust. German expressionism was not the dominant type of popular film in Weimar Germany and were outnumbered by the production of costume dramas, often about folk legends, which were enormously popular with the public ...
From Morn to Midnight (German: Von morgens bis mitternachts) is a 1920 German silent expressionist film directed by Karlheinz Martin based on the 1912 play From Morning to Midnight by Georg Kaiser. It is one of the most radical films of the German Expressionist movement.
This is a list of movements in cinema. Throughout the history of cinema, groups of filmmakers, critics, and/or theorists formed ideas about how films could be made, and the theories they generated, along with the films produced according to those theories, are called movements.
I oppose merging the articles. German Expressionism is a distinct and important period in German film. It's logical that the subject receives its own article. I believe the American and German sections in Expressionism (film) should be separated, but the German Expressionist article should remain in place. --metzerly 07:11, 22 February 2006 (UTC)