...This chapter shows that a fundamental theatricality also marked late nineteenth-century medical research into the forensic significance of hypnosis. Striving to establish the possibility of real criminal suggestions, medical researchers staged the “strange spectacle” of artificial hypnotic crimes...

... among law, literature, and medicine. Juridical, literary, and medical representations of criminal suggestion mutually presupposed and engendered each other. hypnosis Maupassant Guy de Le Horla medium somnambulist suggestion suggestibility Beaunis Henri Bernheim Hippolyte Charcot Jean Martin Forel...

... a medico-legal discussion about the possibility of “criminal suggestion”; by employing specifically filmic devices such as the close-up and the point-of-view shot, they also enacted the alleged hypnotic power of cinema. advertising Expressionism medium somnambulist somnambulism Wiene Robert The Cabinet...