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What is expressionism? A school? A movement? A philosophy? At the end of this episode, Phil and JF agree that it is, above all, a sensibility, one that surfaces periodically in history, punctuating it with occasional bursts of frenetic colour and eruptions of light and shadow. Whenever it appears, expressionism challenges our tendency to divide the world up into neat quadrants: mind and matter, subject and object lose their legitimacy as they start to bleed into one another. Prior to recording, your hosts agreed to focus on two pieces of writing: Victoria Nelson's The Secret Life of Puppets and a recent Internet post on eighties and nineties American films entitled "Neo-Expressionism: The Forgotten Studio Style." Though focused on a number of films, the conversation includes forays into the world of the visual arts, literature, and music.

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REFERENCES

comrade_yui, \u201cneo-expressionism: the forgotten studio style\u201d
\nVictoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets
\nFrancis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula
\nWeird Studies, Episode 161 on \u2018From Hell\u2019
\nBram Stoker, Dracula
\nE. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
\nJean-Francois Millet, \u201cGleaners\u201d
\nKathe Kollwitz, \u201cNeed\u201d
\nRobert Weine, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
\nArnold Schoneberg, Pierrot Lunaire
\nGilles Deleuze, Cinema 1
\nPeter Yates (dir.), Krull
\nWilhelm Worringer, German art historian
\nWeird Studies, Episode 136 on \u2018The Evil Dead\u2019
\nIn Camera The Naive Visual Effects of Dracula
\nKenneth Gross, Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life
\nWeird Studies, Episode 121 \u2018Mandwagon\u2019