The many faces of Weimar cinema: rediscovering Germany's filmic legacy
Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of 'auteurist' filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent d...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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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: | Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of 'auteurist' filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that highlight the tremendous richness and diversity of Weimar cinema. This widening of focus has brought attention to issues such as film as commodity; questions of technology and genre. 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 |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 354 S., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 1-57113-532-4 978-1-57113-532-2 1-57113-429-8 978-1-57113-429-5 |
