Joyless Streets : : Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany / / Patrice Petro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Petro, Patrice,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE On the Subject of Weimar Film History --; CHAPTER TWO Perceptions of Difference --; CHAPTER THREE Weimar Photojournalism and the Female Reader --; CHAPTER FOUR Weimar Cinema and the Female Spectator --; AFTERWORD Feminism and Film History—Joyless Streets Circa 1988 --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691222066; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691222066?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Patrice Petro.

Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience, fascinated with looking at images that called traditional representations of gender into question. Interdisciplinary in her approach, Petro interweaves archival research with recent theoretical debates to offer not merely another view of the Weimar cinema but also another way of looking at Weimar film culture. Women's modernity, she suggests, was not the same as men's modernism, and the image of the city street in film and photojournalism reveals how women responded differently from men to the political, economic, and psychic upheaval of their times.