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| | Encyclopedia: Expressionism (film) |
 | | German Expressionism came to dominate horror and artistic cinema in the silent era, and while many other types of horror and art films were made (such as Universal's Phantom of the Opera), Expressionism remains the more well-recieved genre today. | | | The Dada movement was sweeping across the artistic world in the early 1920s, and the various European cultures of the time had embraced an ethic of change, and a willingness to look to the future by experimenting with bold, new ideas and artistic styles. | | | German Expressionism rose as the theatrically horrific child of two major forces in German life in the early 20th century: Expressionist art and the loss of WWI. |
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| | Learn more about Expressionism in the online encyclopedia. |
| | Expressionism is also found in other art forms - the novels of Franz Kafka are often described as expressionist, for example, and there was a concentrated Expressionist movement in early 20th century German theatre centred around Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller. | | | Expressionism is, generally speaking, a tendency in any art form (painting, literature, film,architecture and so on) to distort reality for emotional effect. | | | Later in the 20th century, the movement influenced a large number of other artists, including the so-called abstract expressionists. |
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| | Many of these artists, writers and directors knew one another, and the ideas of modernism, expressionism, and dadaism crossed over disciplinary boundaries. | | | Architecture saw the founding of the Bauhaus as well as the Modern Movement with designers such as Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Moholy-Nagy, while music also underwent radical changes in the compositions of Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg. | | | The political struggles that ultimately resulted in National Socialism and the challenges to social mores (homosexuality, feminism, abortion rights, etc.) emerge from the various works of art and films. |
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