The many faces of Weimar cinema : rediscovering Germany's filmic legacy / edited by Christian Rogowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogowski, Christian, 1956-

Series:

Screen cultures

Screen cultures : German film and the visual

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Germany.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2010.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

ISBN:

9781571134295

1571134298

OCLC:

462878467