Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

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Title: Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

Contains: 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

Contributor: Ashkenazi, Ofer [Contributor]; Barzilai, Maya [Contributor]; Frölich, Margrit [Contributor]; Ganeva, Mila [Contributor]; Hales, Barbara [Contributor]; Hales, Barbara [Editor]; Hans, Anjeana K. [Contributor]; Henkel, Brook [Contributor]; Malakaj, Ervin [Contributor]; Rogowski, Christian [Contributor]; Seyfert, Andréas-Benjamin [Contributor]; Silverman, Lisa [Contributor]; Stiasny, Philipp [Contributor]; Walk, Cynthia [Contributor]; Wallach, Kerry [Contributor]; Weinstein, Valerie [Contributor]; Weinstein, Valerie [Editor]

Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2020]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (388 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781789208733

ISBN: 9781789208733

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RVK notation: AP 59711 : Deutschland (Westliche Länder)

Keywords: Jewish motion picture producers and directors Germany ; Jews in the motion picture industry Germany ; Motion pictures Germany History 20th century ; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism ; Film and Television Studies, Jewish Studies, History: 20th Century to Present

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Footnote: In English

Description: 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

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