• Media type: Book
  • Title: The many faces of Weimar cinema : rediscovering Germany's filmic legacy
  • Contains: Introduction: images and imaginaries / Christian Rogowski
    Richard Oswald and the social hygiene film: promoting public health or pornography? / 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 Hande (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 commemoration 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 (1930-1933) / Mihaela Petrescu.
  • Contributor: Rogowski, Christian [Editor]
  • Published: Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010
  • Published in: Screen cultures: German film and the visual
  • Issue: 1. Aufl.
  • Extent: XIII, 354 S.; Ill
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 1571135324; 9781571135322; 1571134298; 9781571134295
  • RVK notation: AP 59708 : Deutsches Sprachgebiet
    AP 44910 : Deutschland
  • Keywords: Deutschland > Weimarer Republik > Film > Geschichte 1919-1933
    Geschichte 1918-1933
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: 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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