{"product_id":"warning-shadows-9781640140912","title":"Warning Shadows","description":"\u003cb\u003eA view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtur Robison's \u003ci\u003eWarning Shadows \u003c\/i\u003e- in German simply \u003ci\u003eSchatten\u003c\/i\u003e, shadows - premiered in 1923 to critical acclaim. This story of a fateful dinner party at which a flirtatious wife, her jealous husband, and their guests are entertained by a traveling illusionist who deals in shadow play and hypnosis was extolled by one critic as superior to Wegener's \u003ci\u003eGolem\u003c\/i\u003e, Lubitsch's \u003ci\u003ePassion\u003c\/i\u003e, even Murnau's \u003ci\u003eNosferatu\u003c\/i\u003e and Wiene's \u003ci\u003eThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet where those films became mainstays of film history, \u003ci\u003eWarning Shadows \u003c\/i\u003ewas long unknown: only recently, with the release of a restored version on DVD, has it begun to get its due. One of the few silent movies to eschew intertitles, it was an attempt to create a \"pure film,\" drawing on the qualities of cinema that made it not an heir to literature or theater but a unique and autonomous art form. Staging a story of desire, adultery, and violence, Robison's film also engaged with discourses at the heart of Weimar culture, from changing gender norms to hysteria and hypnosis to the construction of spectatorship. Seen this way, \u003ci\u003eWarning Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e is both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.","brand":"Anjeana K. Hans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280280891643,"sku":"9781640140912","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781640140912_e435eb3a-5094-4a70-8c78-2ff9e2cb6181.jpg?v=1772485783","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/warning-shadows-9781640140912","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}