The many faces of Weimar cinema: rediscovering Germany's filmic legacy
Introduction: images and imaginaries / Christian Rogowski -- Richard Oswald and the social hygiene film: promoting public health or promiscuity? / Jill Suzanne Smith -- Unsettling nerves: investigating war trauma in Robert Reinert's Nerven (1919) / Barbara Hales -- Humanity unleashed: anti-Bols...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY
Camden House
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Series/Journal: | Screen cultures: German film and the visual
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Weimar Republic
/ Film
/ History 1919-1933
B History 1918-1933 |
| Further subjects: | B
History 1918-1933
B Collection of essays B Motion Pictures (Germany) History 20th century B Film B Weimar Republic B German language B Germany |
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| Summary: | Introduction: images and imaginaries / Christian Rogowski -- Richard Oswald and the social hygiene film: promoting public health or promiscuity? / Jill Suzanne Smith -- Unsettling nerves: investigating war trauma in Robert Reinert's Nerven (1919) / Barbara Hales -- Humanity unleashed: anti-Bolshevism as popular culture in early Weimar cinema / Philipp Stiasny -- Desire versus despotism: the politics of Sumurun (1920), Ernst Lubitsch's "Oriental" fantasy / Richard W. McCormick -- Romeo with sidelocks: Jewish-Gentile romance in E. A. Dupont's Das alte Gesetz (1923) and other early Weimar assimilation films / Cynthia Walk -- "These Hands Are Not My Hands": war trauma and masculinity in crisis in Robert Wiene's Orlacs Hände (1924) / Anjeana Hans -- The star system in Weimar cinema / Joseph Garncarz -- Schaulust: sexuality and trauma in Conrad Veidt's masculine masquerades / Elizabeth Otto -- The musical promise of abstract film / Joel Westerdale -- The international project of national(ist) film: Franz Osten in India / Veronika Fuechtner -- The body in time: Wilhelm Prager's Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1926) / Theodore F. Rippey -- Henrik Galeen's Alraune (1927): The Vamp and The Root of Horror / Valerie Weinstein -- The dialectic of (sexual) enlightenment: Wilhelm Dieterle's Geschlecht in Fesseln (1928) / Christian Rogowski -- Babel's business--on Ufa's multiple language film versions, 1929-1933 / Chris Wahl -- "A new era of peace and understanding": the integration of sound film into German popular cinema, 1929-1932 / Ofer Ashkenazi -- Landscapes of death: sound, space and the mobilization genre in G. W. Pabst's Westfront 1918 (1930) / Jaimey Fisher -- Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas's Niemandsland (1931) / Nancy P. Nenno -- Unmasking Brigitte Helm and Marlene Dietrich: the vamp in German romantic comedies (1930-33) / Mihaela Petrescu |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1571135324 |