Analyse any one film or group of films in relation to its social and ideological context: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" along with "The Student of Prague".

I have chosen two films that I hope will forge a good foundation for the arguments in this forthcoming essay. Firstly I'm going to look at a film that can be viewed as one of the original productions to come out of the early German horror genre, Stellan Rye's "The Student of Prague" directed in 1913 and then secondly to build on the arguments raised in my essay I will look at "The Cabinet of Dr. …

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