Caligari then and now: an analysis of narrative adaptation from modernist to postmodernist.

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the ways in which a particular narrative, namely Robert Wiene’s Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920), has been adapted from a modern to a postmodern context in David Lee Fisher’s The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (2005). The analysis considers the context, narrative and mise...

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Main Author:	Read, Graeme
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Language:	en
Published:	2009
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7341

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Caligari then and now: an analysis of narrative adaptation from modernist to postmodernist.

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