Satan, Cinema, & Self Reflexivity

• Self Reflexivity in Art, Literature, and Cinema
• Shakespeare's Hamlet (III:2) and Hamlet's Mousetrap
• Rogier van der Weyden's "Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child" (1435)
• Jan van Eyk's "Arnolfini Marriage" (1434)
• Robert Altman's The Player

• Self Reflexivity and Knowledge
• Eve, the Mirror, and Knowledge as Doubling
• Satan as Artist

• Satan and the Shady Origins of Cinema
• Magic Shows, Laterna Magica, and Popular Culture

• George Méliès and the Théâtre Robert-Houdin

• The Origin of Trick Photography and Special Effects
• The Oldest Satanic Film: Méliès' La Manoir Du Diable (1896)
• A Méliès Sampler: The Cabinet of Mephistopheles (1897), Faust and Margarite (1898), The Damnation of Faust (1898), The Devil in a Convent (1899), The Daughters of Satan (1903), The Infernal Cake-Walk (1903), The Infernal Boiling Pot (1903), The Damnation of Dr. Faust (1904), Four Hundred Pranks of the Devil (1906), The Devilish Tenant (1909)

• The Student of Prague (dir. Stellan Ryan, 1913): The First Full-length Feature Film
• Hanns Heinz Ewers and Aleister Crowley
• Werner Krauss, Conradt Veidt and Doctor Caligari
• The 1926 (dir. Henrik Galeen) remake of the Student of Prague starring Veidt
• A 1935 remake in Nazi Germany with sound, directed by American emigre Arthur Robison
  

• Mirrors, Doppelgangers, and Self Knowledge
• Film clips from the 1913 and 1926 versions of the Student of Prague