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• the carnival, fairgrounds, the tent
• the streets and houses
• Jane's home
• the government office
• the mental institution
• the doctor's office
• boundaries, borders
• symbolic function of filmic geography

Characters

• name
• costume
• mannerisms
• profession
• actions
• stable identity?
• relation to power

Relationship between

• Cesare and Caligari
• Jane and Cesare
• Jane and Caligari
• Francis and Caligari
• spectator and fictional charactors

Who is the enemy? Do you identity with any of the figures?

Narrative

• Frame
• Inner Story

The Body

• How is the body portrayed?
• gendered?
• abnormal?
• source of pleasure? danger?
• conscious?

Spectatorship

• exhibition
• audience
• act of watching/being watched

Masks

• Do any of the figures disguise him/herself? Why?

Knowledge

• What significance do books and other forms of knowledge have?

Discourse/Themes

• identity
• authority
• order/chaos
• dualities
• the body
• femininity
• masculinity
• sexuality
• knowledge
• forbidden pleasure
• murder
• fantasy/reality