Title: Gender and sexuality in Weimar modernity
Description: Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar, Germany through an analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film characterized under the label "New Objectivity." The New Objectivity was marked by a sober, unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contrast to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in "auratic" art. This sensibility was gendered as well as contradictory: while associated with male intellectuals, New Objectivity was best symbolized by the New Woman they feared (and desired). Moving skillfully crom Caligari to Dietrich, McCormick traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social activities onto sexual relations. -- from back cover.
Subjects: German fiction, History, History and criticism, Motion pictures, Sex role in literature, Sex role in motion pictures, Gender identity, Germany, history, 20th century, Motion pictures, germany, Sex role, German fiction, history and criticism, Politics and government, Social conditions
Places: Germany
Time periods: 20th century