6. Horror: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Support the show! Unlike Nosferatu, Robert Wiene’s 1920 film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, follows a decidedly less linear and clear-cut plot, but like Nosferatu, was an incredibly influential film for the genre.  In our second episode on horror movies, we analyze how filmmakers began to trust their audiences to understand increasingly complex and unclear storylines, and we continue the discussion of what it means to see the “authentic” version of a film. Sources Jung, Uli and Walter Schatzberg: Beyond Caligari: the Films of Robert Wiene Ibid: “The Invisible Man behind ‘Caligari’: The Life of Robert Wiene” Kracauer, Siegfried: From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film Titford, John S: “Object-Subject Relationships in German Expressionist Cinema”