Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar cinema / edited by Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hales, Barbara, 1962- editor.

Weinstein, Valerie, 1971- editor.

Series:

Film Europa ; Volume 24.

Film Europa ; Volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

Jews in the motion picture industry--Germany.

Jews in the motion picture industry.

Jewish motion picture producers and directors--Germany.

Jewish motion picture producers and directors.

Germany--Civilization--Jewish influences.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2021]

Summary:

The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish “outsiders” to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to understanding the significant involvement of German Jews in Weimar cinema. Reflecting upon different conceptions of Jewishness – as religion, ethnicity, social role, cultural code, or text – these studies offer a wide-ranging exploration of an often overlooked aspect of German film history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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 Visibility, 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 als die Andern (1919) 152 Valerie Weinstein

Chapter 8. Der Film ohne Juden: G.W. Pabst’s Die freudlose Gasse (1925)

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:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-492-5

1-78920-873-4

OCLC:

1203133060