Brook Henkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brook Henkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brook |
| FAMILY NAME | Henkel |
| SIGNATURE | HENKEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Lawrence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mabuse Returns
Fritz Lang's film The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) stands out among West German cinema of the Adenauer years for its attention to urban space and the afterlife of Nazism in the postwar era. This article rereads the film as an incisive representation of the new mobilities and historically layered spaces and infrastructure of 1950s Berlin, a representation informed by Lang's exile experience and Hollywood film noir. By newly contextualizing t…
The Shape of Spectatorship
Kafka's Animations
Around 1910 trick films by Edwin S. Porter, Émile Cohl, and others fascinated writers and critics by bringing objects to life and upending the dominant roles of human actors found in drama and literature. The animated objects and thing-like humans in Franz Kafka's writings represent a unique response to this little-known history of early cinema. Focusing on "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor," "The Bucket Rider," and "The Cares of a Family Man," this…
Watching the Night
Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s 2011 documentary Abendland is an important, if little-known, cinematic reflection on contemporary surveillance in Europe. Along with his 2005 documentary Unser täglich Brot, Geyrhalter’s films, this paper argues, revive and revise 1920s cross-sectional montage strategies in order to represent the active roles of technology in contemporary life. Through cross-sectional, formal associations, Abendland sugges…
Watching the Night
Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s 2011 documentary Abendland is an important, if little-known, cinematic reflection on contemporary surveillance in Europe. Along with his 2005 documentary Unser täglich Brot, Geyrhalter’s films, this paper argues, revive and revise 1920s cross-sectional montage strategies in order to represent the active roles of technology in contemporary life. Through cross-sectional, formal associations, Abendland sugges…
Watching the Night
Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s 2011 documentary Abendland is an important, if little-known, cinematic reflection on contemporary surveillance in Europe. Along with his 2005 documentary Unser täglich Brot, Geyrhalter’s films, this paper argues, revive and revise 1920s cross-sectional montage strategies in order to represent the active roles of technology in contemporary life. Through cross-sectional, formal associations, Abendland sugges…
The Shape of Spectatorship
Kafka's Animations
Around 1910 trick films by Edwin S. Porter, Émile Cohl, and others fascinated writers and critics by bringing objects to life and upending the dominant roles of human actors found in drama and literature. The animated objects and thing-like humans in Franz Kafka's writings represent a unique response to this little-known history of early cinema. Focusing on "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor," "The Bucket Rider," and "The Cares of a Family Man," this…
Mabuse Returns
Fritz Lang's film The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) stands out among West German cinema of the Adenauer years for its attention to urban space and the afterlife of Nazism in the postwar era. This article rereads the film as an incisive representation of the new mobilities and historically layered spaces and infrastructure of 1950s Berlin, a representation informed by Lang's exile experience and Hollywood film noir. By newly contextualizing t…
Art (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Movie theater (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Representation (politics) (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Afterlife (1 work) · Animation (1 work)