On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:26:03 -0500 Scott Hutchins wrote: > Dr. Touponce showed our class _Metropolis_ as an example of a German > expressionist film. What keeps it out of the definition? I seem to remember that the list Chris Horak cites was also proposed by Barry Salt in an article called "From Caligari to Who?" in 'Sight and Sound'. I can't remember the exact reference, but think it is early '80s. Salt comes up with quite a detailed list of criteria in order for a film to qualify as "expressionist", but his essential argument is that the word has become - incorrectly in his opinion - a generic term to describe all German cinema from the '20s which does not conform to certain aesthetic norms. This point is also discussed by David Robinson in his BFI film classics book on 'Caligari' (London, BFI, 1997). L. > On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Horak, Chris wrote: > > > In a narrow definition of ther term, DIE BUECHSE DER PANDORA is not > > a German expressionist film. Ony about six films actually qualify as > > real expressionist films, utilizing the style of expressionist art and > > theatre in their set design and acting: CALIGARI, VON MORGENS BIS > > MITTERNACHT, GENUINE, ALGOL, ROSKOLNIKOV, and WAXWORKS. All of them were > > made between 1919 and 1923. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite