Modern Traffic,Femininity and Early Cinema Space:The Cinematic Writing of the Young Kafka
Kafka had a love affair with cinema.This article takes the Danish film Die weiβe Sklavin,which Kafka mentioned most frequently in his movie-watching experience,as a clue to explore the cinematic writing of the young Kafka from three aspects:modern traffic,femininity and early cinema space.Kafka's first novel Richard und Samuel appropriates the imagery of trains and automobiles that frequently appeared in early cinema,and depicts the perception of dromology and the aesthetics of disappearance in Paul Virilio's sense avant la lettre;the novel's female protagonist combines the typical female images of"assaulted female"and"flattered female"in late 19th and early 20th century railway films;behind Kafka's association of car space in a forced journey to the cinema,there is hidden dispositif on the representation of the cinema as a modern space of urban desire.These three motifs are scattered throughout Kafka's early work and are embodied in his novel Der Verschollene in a more centralised way.
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