The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: First Franco-German Reception (1920-1922)
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This article presents an overview of the first critical reception of the German film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) in Germany and France. Starting from the reconstruction of the main debates surrounding the film in a social and artistic context after World War I, it will be possible to note how the film raises very productive discussions regarding the establishment of criteria, theories and cinematographic perspectives that will gradually become constant in the vocabulary of specialized film criticism. In this sense, concepts such as plastic and rhythmic unity, atmosphere, style, social expressiveness, or even the kinship with tradition and with literary genres such as the detective novel will be the basis of a theoretical effort that, although it fluctuates in the rigor with which it is operated, condenses or even announces an entire critical vocabulary that will later crystallize in film analysis of national cinematographies and their transformations in the rise of silent films, in the advent of sound films and in the formation of modern cinema.
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