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Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar cinema / edited by Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Film Europa: German cinema in an international context ; volume 24.
- Film Europa: German cinema in an international context ; volume 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Jewish motion picture producers and directors.
- Jews in the motion picture industry.
- Germany.
- History.
- Jews in the motion picture industry--Germany.
- Jewish motion picture producers and directors--Germany.
- Germany--Civilization--Jewish influences.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Jewishness of Weimar Cinema
- Part I
- Jewish Visibility On and Off Screen
- Chapter 1
- Humanizing Shylock: The "Jewish Type" in Weimar Film
- Chapter 2
- Energizing the Dramaturgy: How Jewishness Shaped Alexander Granach's Performances in Weimar Cinema
- Chapter 3
- The Jewish Vamp of Berlin: Actress Maria Orska, Typecasting, and Jewish Women
- Chapter 4
- Jewish Comedians beyond Lubitsch: Siegfried Arno in Film and Cabaret
- Chapter 5
- Alfred Rosenthal's Rhetoric of Collaboration, the Politics of Jewish Visbility, and Jewish Weimar Film Print Culture
- Part II
- Coding and Decoding Jewish Difference
- Chapter 6
- Two Worlds, Three Friends, and the Mysterious Seven-Branched Candelabrum: Jewish Filmmaking in Weimar Germany
- Chapter 7
- Homosexual Emancipation, Queer Masculinity, and Jewish Difference in Anders al die Andern (1919)
- Chapter 8
- Der Film ohne
- Chapter 9
- "The World Is Funny, Like a Dream": Franziska Gaal's Verwechslungskomödien and Exile's Crisis of Identity
- Part III
- Jewishness as Antisemitic Construct
- Chapter 10
- Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Weimar's Perpetuation of the Jewish Syphilis Conspiracy
- Chapter 11
- The Einstein Film: Animation, Relativity, and the Charge of "Jewish Science"
- Chapter 12
- "A Clarion Call to Strike Back": Antisemitism and Ludwig Berger's Der Meister von Nürnberg (1927)
- Chapter 13
- Banning Jewishness: Stefan Zweig, Robert Siodmak, and the Nazis
- Chapter 14
- Detoxification: Nazi Remakes of E.A. Dupont's Blockbusters
- Coda
- Chapter 15
- "Filmrettung: Save the Past for the Future!": Film Restoration and Jewishness in German and Austrian Silent Cinema
- Afterword
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar cinema
- ISBN:
- 9781789208733
- 1789208734
- Publisher Number:
- 40030166930
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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