Iperreale. Cinema, fenomenologia e statue di cera

By focusing on the leitmotiv of the wax puppets, as developed in "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" (Wiene, 1920), "Das Wachsfigurenkabinett" (Leni, 1924) and "Mistery of the wax museum" (Curtiz, 1933), this essay explores the ambiguous relationship between reality and pretense in terms of hyperrealism. The analysis is put forward within the framework of Husserl's remarks on the difficulty - not to say impossibility - to mark out the boundary line between perception and image consciousness