The many faces of Weimar cinema
Subtitle: rediscovering Germany's filmic legacy
By: edited by Christian Rogowski
Series: Screen cultures : German film and the visual; Screen cultures
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781571134295
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: images and imaginaries / Christian Rogowski; title: Richard Oswald and the social hygiene film: promoting public health or promiscuity? / Jill Suzanne Smith; title: Unsettling nerves: investigating war trauma in Robert Reinert's Nerven (1919) / Barbara Hales; title: Humanity unleashed: anti-Bolshevism as popular culture in early Weimar cinema / Philipp Stiasny; title: Desire versus despotism: the politics of Sumurun (1920), Ernst Lubitsch's "Oriental" fantasy / Richard W. McCormick; title: Romeo with sidelocks: Jewish-Gentile romance in E. A. Dupont's Das alte Gesetz (1923) and other early Weimar assimilation films / Cynthia Walk; title: "These Hands Are Not My Hands": war trauma and masculinity in crisis in Robert Wiene's Orlacs Hände (1924) / Anjeana Hans; title: The star system in Weimar cinema / Joseph Garncarz; title: Schaulust: sexuality and trauma in Conrad Veidt's masculine masquerades / Elizabeth Otto; title: The musical promise of abstract film / Joel Westerdale; title: The international project of national(ist) film: Franz Osten in India / Veronika Fuechtner; title: The body in time: Wilhelm Prager's Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1926) / Theodore F. Rippey; title: Henrik Galeen's Alraune (1927): The Vamp and The Root of Horror / Valerie Weinstein; title: The dialectic of (sexual) enlightenment: Wilhelm Dieterle's Geschlecht in Fesseln (1928) / Christian Rogowski; title: Babel's business; title: on Ufa's multiple language film versions, 1929-1933 / Chris Wahl; title: "A new era of peace and understanding": the integration of sound film into German popular cinema, 1929-1932 / Ofer Ashkenazi; title: Landscapes of death: sound, space and the mobilization genre in G. W. Pabst's Westfront 1918 (1930) / Jaimey Fisher; title: Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas's Niemandsland (1931) / Nancy P. Nenno; title: Unmasking Brigitte Helm and Marlene Dietrich: the vamp in German romantic comedies (1930-33) / Mihaela Petrescu.