The uncanny gaze
Subtitle: the drama of early German cinema
By: Heide Schlüpmann ; translated by Inga Pollmann ; foreword by Miriam Hansen.
Series: Women and film history international
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252032837; 9780252076718
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Germany -- History
Work titles: Unheimlichkeit des Blicks.
Notes: Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : on the secret complicity between cinematography and women's emancipation in Wilhelminian society; title: The heart of reason : the beginnings of narrative cinema; title: The femininity of men : comedy; title: Reaction in the melodrama; title: Excursus : Henny Porten, or, the realism of melodrama; title: Contradictions of social drama; title: Perspective "from below" or perspective "from outside" : the detective film; title: Uncanniness of the female gaze : sensational drama; title: Crime and love in prewar drama, 1913-1914; title: Afterword.