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The hygienic apparatus : Weimar cinema and environmental disorder /

This study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad attempts to create healthy spaces for life and work amid the pollution, disease, accidents, and noise...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dobryden, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Hygiene, Cinema, and German Modernity
  • 1. The Hygienic Dispositif: Health and the Movie Theater Environment
  • 2. Hygienic Modernization: Visions of Environmental Order in the Weimar Kulturfilm
  • 3. Matter Out of Place: Pollution and Distraction in F.W. Murnau's Faust
  • 4. Bodies Out of Place: Images of Disability and Aging
  • 5. Landscapes of Exploitation: Environmental Disorder and Late Weimar Oppositional Filmmaking
  • Afterword. Hygiene and Media, Then and Now
  • Filmography