Malicious Houses: Animation, Animism, Animosity in German Architecture and Film- From Mies to Murnau

摘要

Frame One: The medium close-up of a curtained window: Through the open frame we see the outline of a row of houses with stubby gables. A beam of light falls diagonally on the facades, unveiling a series of windows. Frame Two: The wide shot of a Biedermeier bedchamber overstuffed with a canopy bed, a heavy armchair, a pedimented mirror, and silhouette portraits on the wall flanking the curtained window. Gradually, a spherical object starts rotating behind the ruffled bedclothes. It is the head of Nosferatu staring at the window. The vampire slowly rises, clutches his heart with his left hand, and then starts running.