{"id":1836,"date":"2013-09-24T23:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2013-09-24T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T03:32:14","slug":"film-as-a-new-leisure-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/09\/24\/film-as-a-new-leisure-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Film as a New Leisure Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the way <i>The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari<\/i>\u00a0was set up, European cinema was establishing itself as the new form of art. Comparing it to\u00a0<em>Battleship Potemkin<\/em> which came a few years after\u00a0<em>Dr. Caligari<\/em>, there is a noticeable difference in the quality (and probably the budgets) when put side by side.\u00a0<em>Potemkin<\/em>\u00a0shows high quality film and excellent lighting; however it was backed by the state and most likely had a much higher budget than\u00a0<em>Dr. Caligari<\/em> because of its designation as state propaganda.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Caligari<\/em> however, was building itself like a novel, photograph or any other work of art, using technique and style to create a masterpiece. Because the film is suppose to be the founding of expressionism-which is clearly shown based on the amount of closeups used to convey emotion-it delivers emotion rather than story. Using the various lighting techniques, this movie paves the way for future work such as <i>Triumph of Will<\/i> and other important films in European Cinema.<\/p>\n<p>As a whole,\u00a0<em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/em> serves not only as a benchmark in film history, it serves as a guiding light for understanding European culture in the 20&#8217;s. The idea that man&#8217;s reality is controlled by a &#8220;state&#8221;- in this case the actual psychiatrist- really seemed to click with Germans and Europeans as a whole, leading to this film&#8217;s success and laying the groundwork for film makers like Eisenstein. \u00a0<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the way The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari\u00a0was set up, European cinema was establishing itself as the new form of art. Comparing it to\u00a0Battleship Potemkin which came a few years after\u00a0Dr. Caligari, there is a noticeable difference in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/09\/24\/film-as-a-new-leisure-activity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51180],"tags":[85450,15005,80448,80588,85449],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-european-cinema","tag-film","tag-sergei-eisenstein","tag-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari","tag-triumph-of-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}