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
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The film has enriched our field of perception with methods which can be illustrated by those of Freudian theory. Fifty years ago, a slip of the tongue passed more or less unnoticed. Only exceptionally may such a slip have revealed dimensions of depth in a conversation which had seemed to be taking its course on the surface. Since the Psychopatholog
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