Abstract
This essay argues that F.W. Murnau’s Faust (1926) advances a philosophy of film as a medium for “technological images”—images that are technologically constructed special effects such as double exposure and substitution splice. By portraying Mephistopheles as a conjurer, the film explores cinema’s place in the history of visual and technological magic.
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