Apresentam-se aqui duas vias de investigações sobre Der Knabe in Blau, filme perdido de F. W. Murnau, produzido em 1919. A primeira via examina o texto O homem visível, escrito pelo filósofo Béla Balázs em 1924, procurando as intersecções entre o seu pensamento e os filmes de Murnau, quando estes referem-se às relações com as demais artes; a segundase serve de fragmentos de imagens e intertítulos sobreviventes, propondo hipóteses para a reconstrução imaginária da narrativa. O esforço aqui empreendido na coleta de passagens do texto de Balázs visa contribuir com os estudos sobre a presença de outras artes nos filmes deste período, enquanto a experiência de comentar a obra perdida de Murnau instrui a averiguar as artes como elementos diegéticos na narrativa fílmica. / We hereby present two investigative pathways on Der Knabe in Blau, F.W. Murnau\'s lost film, produced in 1919. The first pathway examines the text Visible Man, written by the philosopher Béla Balázs in 1924, looking for the intersections between his thinking and the films of Murnau, while they make references to the relationships with other forms of art; the second relies on the surviving images fragments and intertitles, proposing hypotheses for the imaginary reconstruction of the narrative. The effort here undertaken to collect passages from the Balázs text aims to contribute with the studying of the presence of other forms of art in films from this period, while the experience of commenting on the lost work of Murnau serves to ascertain the arts as diegetic elements in the film narrative.

The master thesis analyses and compares the main characters of three significant works concerning the Dracula theme. It provides a comparison of Bram Stoker's Dracula and its film adaptations, namely Nosferatu - Die Symphonie des Grauens (1922) directed by F. W. Murnaua and Dracula (1992) by F. F. Coppola. The work contrasts the interpretation of a vampire through the character of Dracula, analyses and maps the evolution of female characters in regard to the rules and expectations of society and examines the role of the two most distinct male characters of the story, A. Van Helsing and R. M. Renfield. The three introductory chapters are dedicated to the authors of the works concerned and to the novel and its adaptations, i.e. it describes the circumstances of their conception and their content. The Bram Stoker chapter also comprises a brief characterization and an overview of the gothic novel, the section handling the Nosferatu movie provides a subchapter on expressionist film and the chapter on the work of F. F. Coppola is supplemented with a short outline of the notion of a vampire in pop culture of the 20th century. The first chapter of the comparative analysis concerns the comparison of Dracula character in the novel and its two film adaptations based on the narratological theory of Bohumil...