Weimar film and modern Jewish identity
By: Ofer Ashkenazi
Series: Studies in European culture and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780230341364
Subjects: Motion pictures; Jews in motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; History; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "This book argues that Weimar genre film was a site where the complexities and challenges of Jewish identity were envisioned and negotiated. 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Weimar Film and Jewish Acculturation; title: The Jews Have no Shame: The "Jewish Tragedy" in Weimar Urban Comedy; title: A Man in the Street, a Jew at Home: Identity and Performance in Weimar Domestic Melodramas; title: Assimilating the Shrew: Alraune and the Discussion of Biological Difference in Weimar Horror Film; title: Wandering Jews: A "Jewish" Solution for Weimar Crisis in Exotic Adventure and War Films; title: Epilogue.