Kaes, Anton. 2006. This book chapter argues the 1919 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari manifests the anxiety and trauma of immediate post-World War I Germany into one of the first horror films. Keas analyzes such…
Stewart, Garrett. 2012. Film Quarterly 63, no. 3: 58-62. Garrett Stewart argues animation and documentary-style filmmaking/writing enhance the constructed nature of memory and trauma in Ari Folman’s 2008 documentary…
Toles, George. 2012. Cinema Journal 51, no. 3: 142-149. Toles analyzes the antagonist of The Third Man (1949), Harry Lime, arguing he is an allegory for Hitler and Stalin, among others. Lime behaves in the same…
Leidinger, Hannes. 2018. University of New Orleans Press. This article presents an analysis of the appearance of Habsburg monarchs and the pre-World War I Austrian Empire which was common in Austrian film from the…
Carpenter, Lynette. 1986. Film criticism 11, no. 1/2: 56-65. Lynette Carpenter argues the 1949 film The Third Man serves as a warning to European political powers about the dangers of the Cold War mentality, which was…
McCormick, Rick. 2020. In Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, 244–81. Indiana University Press. McCormick provides an analysis of the three most popular films of comedic director…
Harvey, Stephen. 1972. Film Comment 8, no. 3: 20–22. Author Stephen Harvey presents an analysis of Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film The Great Dictator, and in particular its political comedy and its relationship to the bulk…