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The role of German expressionism cinema in the birth of fascism

Levan Abduselishvili_2020

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Abstract taken from the full text of the paper (PDF, page 4).

The present paper will study the role of German expressionism cinema in the birth of fascism. This study will determine how possible is it to discuss the birth of Hitler and Nazism in Weimar Republic, based on expressionism. In the work are used the secondary source, analysis method, culture research method, content analysis and visual analysis of movie images. The main focus will be on the works of film theorists: Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte H. Eisner. On the one hand Kracauer’s “From Caligari to Hitler’’ and on the other Lotte H. Eisner’s “The Haunted Screen’’ will help to rethinking the results of their research. How possible is it that Cinema ( Despite of it’s the most mass art) contribute the birth of the most terrifying tyranny of the history of world.

The results will help us to deepen or lighten the connection between German expressionism and Nazism. One of the biggest director of German expressionism cinema, Fritz Lang denies the hypotheses raised by the Kracauer and Eisner and thinks that the expressionists have not been blamed for the birth of the Third Reich. Key search Keywords: German expressionism, Fascism, Siegfried Kracauer, Lotte H. Eisner.2

Full text: PDF, 70 pages. The full text is available in Georgian. Open the paper

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About Project

At present, “The Database of Academic Writings” is aimed at systematizing scientific legacy within art history and theory and related academic disciplines, such as: arts management and administration, culture studies, culture/arts sociology, philosophy, cultural anthropology, etc.; it promotes scientific achievements of the national researchers in Georgia and beyond. In the long run the platform serves to ensure proper intellectual development on the national level. Writings represent intellectual property of individual researchers developed in partnership with research and educational institutions.

Therefore, platform collects Master and PhD theses, monographs and other types of academic writings developed in partnership with research institutions; also, articles published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

The Project is the extension of „Contemporary Art Archive – Tbilisi“ and is supported by International Education Center Alumni Association.

The archive was restored in 2026. Abstracts and full texts are being added gradually.