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- Title
Haunted Screens and Spiritual Scenes: Film as a Medium in the Cinema of Carl Theodor Dreyer.
- Authors
Harrison, Rebecca
- Abstract
The article discusses spiritual and haunted scenes in Danish cinema and the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer. The discussion focuses on the self-reflexive gestures in Dreyer's motion pictures in relation to stillness and movement in the medium which represents time or space in the boundary between life and death. The example of the concepts of the animate and inanimate in three films "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc," "Vampyr," and "Ordet" are discussed. The concept of "uncanny" in Freud's psychoanalytic logic, the filmic self-consciousness in Dreyer's scenes where there are ghostly manifestations, and the argument that Dreyer's films berate spiritual belief are mentioned.
- Subjects
DENMARK; DREYER, Carl Theodor, 1889-1968; MOTION pictures; FILM theory; SPIRITUALITY; RELIGIOUS experience; FILM criticism; MOTION picture history
- Publication
Scandinavica: An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0036-5653
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.54432/scand/bqcz5543