Exiles and Expressionism: The Transatlantic Exodus of European Filmmakers
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Exiles and Expressionism: The Transatlantic Exodus of European Filmmakers
The spirit of the times … shows itself … significantly, in cinema and jazz. These are characteristic symptoms of our time, which has extended the humanistic ideal even to the body … The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a
... See morefrom Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious by Christopher Hauke
Perhaps transformation into art is one way of dealing with the overstimulation of modern life. Art binds chaotic impressions into form … Perhaps film emerged when it did because it was just the therapy people needed to bind into manageable form the chaos of modern overstimulation.
from Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious by Christopher Hauke
we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.
from The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by walkerart.org
Keely Adler added
- The architecture of a civilization is always in communion with its technology. Its effects are deeper than just the immediate appearance of buildings: the process of technology colors everything about how a culture interacts with the world. In the early 20th century, the mathematical rationalism of inventors and engineers intermixed with the wealth... See more
from The Concrete Oasis by Noah Putnam
Andrei Stoica added
In this sense, the cinema is one way that contemporary society keeps the symbolic life and mythological world alive.
from Jungian Film Studies: The essential guide (Jung: The Essential Guides) by Helena Bassil-Morozow