Continuity and crisis in German cinema, 1928-1936 /
Hitler's Machtergreifung, or seizure of power, on January 30, 1933, marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich, and German film scholarship has generally accepted this date as the break between Weimar and Nazi-era film as well. This collection of essays interroga...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
[2016]
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Colección: | Screen cultures.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Barbara Hales, Mihaela Petrescu, and Valerie Weinstein
- Part 1. Politics
- "Timid heresies": Werner Hochbaum's Razzia in St. Pauli (1932) / Christian Rogowski
- Film as pedagogy in late Weimar and early Nazi cinema: the role of the street in mobilizing the Spectator / Bastian Heinsohn
- Part 2. The economy
- "A fairy tale for grown-ups": financial and cinematic crises in Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931) / Paul Flaig
- "Denn Gold ist Gluck und Fluch dieser Welt": Examining the trope of "Gold" in Gold (1934) and Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (1936) / Owen Lyons
- Part 3. Concepts of race and ethnicity
- Degenerate disease and the doctors of death: racial hygiene film as propaganda in Weimar and Early Nazi Germany / Barbara Hales
- "White Jews" and dark continents: capitalist critique and its racial undercurrents in Detlef Sierck's April! April! (1935) / Valerie Weinstein
- Part 4. Genre cinema
- The Zigeunerdrama reloaded: Leni Riefenstahl's Fantasy gypsies and Sacrificial others / Anjeana Hans
- Regaining mobility: the Aviator in Weimar mountain films / Wilfried Wilms
- Part 5. Making cinema stars
- Brigitte Helm and Germany's star system in the 1920s and 1930s / Mihaela Petrescu
- Foreign attractions: Czech stars and ethnic masquerade / Kevin B. Johnson
- Part 6. Film Technologies
- Objects in Motion: Hans Richter's Vormittagsspuk (1928) and the crisis of avant- garde film / Brook Henkel
- Seeing crisis in Harry Piel's Ein unsichtbarer geht durch die stadt (1933) / Kalani Michell
- Part 7. German-international film relations
- Playing the European market: Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent (1928), Ufa, and German-French film relations / Margrit Frolich
- A serious man? Ernst Lubitsch's anti-war film The Man I Killed (a.k.a. Broken Lullaby, USA 1932) / Richard McCormick.