Between Two Worlds : : The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933 / / S. S. Prawer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Prawer, S. S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Film Europa ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Jews have been well represented in the cinema industry from the beginning of the film era: behind the screen, as producers, distributors, directors, script-writers, composers, set designers; and on the screen, as Jewish actors and as named Jewish characters in the film's plot. Some of these characters are fictional; others, ranging from Rabbi Loew of Prague to Ferdinand Lassalle and Alfred Dreyfus, have a historic original. This book examines how a variety of German and Austrian films treat aspects of Jewish life, at home and in the synagogue, and Jewish interaction with fellow Jews in different cultural environments; conflicts and accommodations between Jews and non-Jews at various times, ranging from the medieval to the contemporary. The author, one of the best known scholars in film history, theory and criticism, offers the reader a rich panorama of the many Jews involved in all spheres of the cinema and who, as the author reminds us repeatedly, together with their non-Jewish contemporaries, created a great industry and new forms of art.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 PREPARING THE GROUND -- Chapter 2 DRAMAS AND MELODRAMAS OF THE ‘SILENT’ PERIOD -- Chapter 3 COMEDIES OF THE ‘SILENT’ PERIOD -- Chapter 4 ‘ENLIGHTENMENT’ FILMS (SITTENFILME) -- Chapter 5 1929: A YEAR OF TRANSITION -- Chapter 6 IRONIC REALISM -- Chapter 7 LATE COMEDIES -- Chapter 8 CONFRONTATIONS AND ENMITIES -- Chapter 9 A NEW FILM MUSICAL -- EPILOGUE -- Appendix JEWISH ARTISTS AND ADMINISTRATORS WORKING IN THE GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN FILM INDUSTRY IN 1929 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX