The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
READINGS
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What are some of the reasons you have found in your readings why the public
goes back and forth between seeing mental health professionals in positive
and negative ways?
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What connections are there between the history of this country and the
portrayals of psychiatry by film makers that would lead to these different
portrayals?
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Looking back over your readings and the films you have seen, give examples
of the stereotypes of mental health professionals you have encountered.
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Can you think of ways in which psychotherapy and psychotherapists could
be portrayed more realistically and still hold an audience's interest &
attention?
CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
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Music at beginning & all through - dissonance
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all sharp angles - Abstract art
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Hypnotism a popular treatment - psychics & mediums also
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camera pupil opens & close - watch closeups for eyes
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Dr. as manipulator - thick glasses
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How does the film suggest that the whole story is the hallucinations &
delusions of a "madman" (look at shape, color, angles, makeup on the actors,
settings)?
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What is the picture of Dr. Caligari in the main part of the film &
in the final scenes?
SECRETS OF A SOUL
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What is the patient's real problem?
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How can you tell this was supervised by 2 famous students of Freud?
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How was this both similar & different from "Mine Own Executioner"