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- Title
Zeitgenosse Murnau Eine verpasste Begegnung mit der »Gesellschaft für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft«.
- Authors
Wedel, Michael
- Abstract
Taking film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s intended participation in the second congress of the Gesellschaft für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft as its point of departure, this essay pursues a twofold goal: On the one hand, it outlines the beginnings of the society’s and its affiliated journal’s critical interrogation of the cinema’s aesthetic value. On the other hand, it puts Murnau’s own views in this question in an imaginary dialogue with positions taken by members of the society during the congress of 1924 and in the pages of the society’s journal. The many analogies to be found point to the sincerity of the society’s short-lived attempt to modernize the premises of its reflections on art and to open up towards contemporary modes of artistic practice and new technology-based forms of art. With regard to Murnau they may be taken as documenting a degree of alert contemporaneity that is all too often downplayed in traditional accounts of this director as cinema’s great »romantic« and »melancholic«.
- Subjects
AESTHETICS; ANALOGY; FILMMAKERS; SINCERITY; PARTICIPATION
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (ZÄK), 2021, Vol 66, Issue 1, p135
- ISSN
0044-2186
- Publication type
Article