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New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective.
List of contents
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) -
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 (1925) -
Henrik Galeen's Alraune (1927): The Vamp and The Root of Horror -
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: 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) -
Filmography
Notes on the Contributors
Index
About the author
Christian Rogowski
Summary
New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective.
