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Possessed by Stefan Andriopoulos

Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema
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Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over spellbound audiences. Stefan Andriopoulos shows that all this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was no marginal oddity, but rather a pervasive concern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Tracing this preoccupation through the period's films - as well as its legal, medical, and literary texts - Andriopoulos pays particular attention to the terrifying notion of murder committed against one's will. He returns us to a time when medical researchers described the hypnotized subject as a medium who could be compelled to carry out violent crimes, and when films like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler" famously portrayed the hypnotist's seemingly unlimited power on the movie screen. Combining theoretical sophistication with scrupulous archival research and insightful film analysis, "Possessed" adds a new dimension to our understanding of today's anxieties about the onslaught of visual media and the expanding reach of vast corporations that seem to absorb our own identities.

About the Author
Stefan Andriopoulos is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University.

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"Ambitious and wide-ranging, Possessed is a remarkably invigorating interdisciplinary exercise that will be read with profit by individuals in cinema and media studies, comparative literature, and the history of science. It reaches conclusions that are both precisely stated and inordinately suggestive." - Eric Rentschler, Harvard University"



Book Information
ISBN 9780226020549
Author Stefan Andriopoulos
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Series Cinema and Modernity
Weight(grams) 425g
Dimensions(mm) 24mm * 16mm * 2mm

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Subtitle:
Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema
Series:
Cinema and Modernity
Imprint:
University of Chicago Press

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