Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity [electronic resource] /
Ashkenazi, O.author.
In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; One Weimar Film and Jewish Acculturation; Two The Jews Have No Shame: The "Jewish Tragedy" in Weimar Urban Comedies; Three A Man in The Street , a Jew at Home: Identity and Performance in Weimar Domestic Melodramas; Four Assimilating the Shrew: Alraune and the Discussion of Biological Difference in Weimar Horror Film; Five Wandering Jews: A "Jewish" Solution to the German Crisis in Weimar Exotic Adventure and War Films; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime.
Motion pictures and television.
World history.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Judaism and culture.
Europe, Central—History.
Screen Studies.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Jewish Cultural Studies.
History of Germany and Central Europe.