Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Introduction: ‘The sanguine, pulsating, enterprising modern life’: Cinema and Vitalism 9
5. 1. Vitalism and Abstraction: Rhythm and Non-Organic Life from Hans Richter to Sergei Eisenstein 47
6. 2. New Worlds: Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory at the Movies 97
7. 3. The Interweaving of World and Self: Transformations of Mood in Expressionist and Kammerspiel Film 163
8. 4. Open Bodies, Open Stories: Evolution, Narration, and Spectatorship in Post-war Film Theory 207
9. Conclusion: Vital Media 257
10. Bibliography 269
11. Index of Films 287
12. Index of Names 289
13. Index of Subjects 293