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The many faces of Weimar cinema : rediscovering Germany's filmic legacy /

Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of 'auteurist' filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, ""expressionist film,"" has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rogowski, Christian, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd, 2013.
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  • Frontcover; Title; Introduction: Images and Imaginaries; Notes; 1: Richard Oswald and the Social Hygiene Film: Promoting Public Health or Promiscuity?; Notes; 2: Unsettling Nerves: Investigating War Trauma in Robert Reinert's 'Nerven' (1919); Notes; 3: Humanity Unleashed: Anti-Bolshevism as Popular Culture in Early Weimar Cinema; Notes; 4: Desire versus Despotism: The Politics of 'Sumurun' (1920), Ernst Lubitsch's "Oriental" Fantasy; Notes; 5: Romeo with Sidelocks: Jewish-Gentile Romance in E. A. Dupont's 'Das alte Gesetz' (1923) and Other Early Weimar Assimilation Films; Notes.
  • 6: "These Hands Are Not My Hands": War Trauma and Masculinity in Crisis in Robert Wiene's 'Orlacs Hände' (1924)Notes; 7: The Star System in Weimar Cinema; Notes; 8: 'Schaulust': Sexuality and Trauma in Conrad Veidt's Masculine Masquerades; Notes; 9: The Musical Promise of Abstract Film; Notes; 10: The International Project of National(ist) Film: Franz Osten in India; Notes; 11: The Body in Time: Wilhelm Prager's 'Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit' (1925); Notes; 12: Henrik Galeen's 'Alraune' (1927): The Vamp and the Root of Horror; Notes.
  • 13: The Dialectic of (Sexual) Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dieterle's 'Geschlecht in Fesseln' (1928)Notes; 14: Babel's Business
  • On Ufa's Multiple Language Film Versions, 1929-1933; Notes; 15: "A New Era of Peace and Understanding": The Integration of Sound Film into German Popular Cinema, 1929-1932; Notes; 16: Landscapes of Death: Space and the Mobilization Genre in G. W. Pabst's 'Westfront 1918' (1930); Notes; 17: Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas's 'Niemandsland' (1931); Notes; 18: Unmasking Brigitte Helm and Marlene Dietrich: The Vamp in German Romantic Comedies (1930-33); Notes; Filmography.
  • ContributorsIndex; List of Illustrations; Copyright.