Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema /

Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema / / ed. by Valerie Weinstein, Barbara Hales.

The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish “outsiders” to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and methodological approache...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Ashkenazi, Ofer,
Barzilai, Maya,
Frölich, Margrit,
Ganeva, Mila,
Hales, Barbara,
Hans, Anjeana K.,
Henkel, Brook,
Malakaj, Ervin,
Rogowski, Christian,
Seyfert, Andréas-Benjamin,
Silverman, Lisa,
Stiasny, Philipp,
Walk, Cynthia,
Wallach, Kerry,
Weinstein, Valerie,
HerausgeberIn:
Hales, Barbara,
Weinstein, Valerie,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Film Europa ; 24
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Physical Description:1 online resource (388 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction THE JEWISHNESS OF WEIMAR CINEMA
  • PART I JEWISH VISIBILITY ON AND OFF SCREEN
  • Chapter 1. Humanizing Shylock: The “Jewish Type” in Weimar Film
  • Chapter 2. Energizing the Dramaturgy: How Jewishness Shaped Alexander Granach’s Performances in Weimar Cinema
  • Chapter 3. The Jewish Vamp of Berlin: Actress Maria Orska, Typecasting, and Jewish Women
  • Chapter 4. Jewish Comedians beyond Lubitsch: Siegfried Arno in Film and Cabaret
  • Chapter 5. Alfred Rosenthal’s Rhetoric of Collaboration, the Politics of Jewish Visibility, and Jewish Weimar Film Print Culture
  • PART II CODING AND DECODING JEWISH DIFFERENCE
  • Chapter 6. Two Worlds, Three Friends, and the Mysterious Seven-Branched Candelabrum: Jewish Filmmaking in Weimar Germany
  • Chapter 7. Homosexual Emancipation, Queer Masculinity, and Jewish Difference in Anders als die Andern (1919) 152 Valerie Weinstein
  • Chapter 8. Der Film ohne Juden: G.W. Pabst’s Die freudlose Gasse (1925)
  • Chapter 9. “The World Is Funny, Like a Dream”: Franziska Gaal’s Verwechslungskomödien and Exile’s Crisis of Identity
  • PART III JEWISHNESS AS ANTISEMITIC CONSTRUCT
  • Chapter 10. Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Weimar’s Perpetuation of the Jewish Syphilis Conspiracy
  • Chapter 11. The Einstein Film: Animation, Relativity, and the Charge of “Jewish Science”
  • Chapter 12. “A Clarion Call to Strike Back”: Antisemitism and Ludwig Berger’s Der Meister von Nürnberg (1927)
  • Chapter 13. Banning Jewishness: Stefan Zweig, Robert Siodmak, and the Nazis
  • Chapter 14. Detoxification: Nazi Remakes of E.A. Dupont’s Blockbusters
  • CODA
  • Chapter 15. “Filmrettung: Save the Past for the Future!”: Film Restoration and Jewishness in German and Austrian Silent Cinema
  • AFTERWORD
  • INDEX

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