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The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy(Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)

The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy(Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)


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New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective. Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that highlight the tremendous richness and diversity of Weimar cinema. This widening of focus has brought attention to issues such as film as commodity; questions of technology and genre; transnational collaborations and national identity; effects of changes in socioeconomics and gender roles onfilm spectatorship; and connections between film and other arts and media. Such shifts have been accompanied by archival research that has made a cornucopia of new information available, now augmented by the increased availability of films from the period on DVD. This wealth of new source material calls for a re-evaluation of Weimar cinema that considers the legacies of lesser-known directors and producers, popular genres, experiments of the artistic avant-garde, and nonfiction films, all of which are aspects attended to by the essays in this volume. Contributors: Ofer Ashkenazi, Jaimey Fisher, Veronika Fuechtner, Joseph Garncarz, Barbara Hales, Anjeana Hans, Richard W.McCormick, Nancy P. Nenno, Elizabeth Otto, Mihaela Petrescu, Theodore F. Rippey, Christian Rogowski, Jill Smith, Philipp Stiasny, Chris Wahl, Cynthia Walk, Valerie Weinstein, Joel Westerdale. Christian Rogowski is Professor of German at Amherst College.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Images and Imaginaries - Christian Rogowski Richard Oswald and the Social Hygiene Film: Promoting Public Health or Promiscuity? - Jill Suzanne Smith Unsettling Nerves: Investigating War Trauma in Robert Reinert's Nerven (1919) - Humanity Unleashed: Anti-Bolshevism as Popular Culture in Early Weimar Cinema - Philipp Stiasny Desire versus Despotism: The Politics of Sumurun (1920), Ernst Lubitsch's "Oriental" Fantasy - Richard W. McCormick Romeo with Sidelocks: Jewish-Gentile Romance in E. A. Dupont's Das alte Gesetz (1923) and Other Early Weimar Assimilation Films - Cynthia Walk "These Hands Are Not My Hands": War Trauma and Masculinity in Crisis in Robert Wiene's Orlacs Hände (1924) - Anjeana Hans The Star System in Weimar Cinema - Joseph Garncarz Schaulust: Sexuality and Trauma in Conrad Veidt's Masculine Masquerades - Elizabeth Otto The Musical Promise of Abstract Film - Joel Westerdale The International Project of National(ist) Film: Franz Osten in India - Veronika Fuechtner The Body in Time: Wilhelm Prager's Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925) - Henrik Galeen's Alraune (1927): The Vamp and The Root of Horror - The Dialectic of (Sexual) Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dieterle's Geschlecht in Fesseln (1928) - Christian Rogowski Babel's Business - On Ufa's Multiple Language Film Versions, 1929-1933 - Chris Wahl "A New Era of Peace and Understanding":The Integration of Sound Film into German Popular Cinema, 1929-1932 - Ofer Ashkenazi Landscapes of Death: Space and the Mobilization Genre in G. W. Pabst's Westfront 1918 (1930) - Jaimey Fisher Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas's Niemandsland (1931) - Nancy P. Nenno Unmasking Brigitte Helm and Marlene Dietrich: The Vamp in German Romantic Comedies (1930-33) - Filmography Notes on the Contributors Index

About the Author :
Anjeana K. Hans is Associate Professor of German Studies at Wellesley College. JILL SUZANNE SMITH is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.

Review :
An important contribution to the literature on Weimar cinema, originally published in 2010, now available in an economical paperback edition. . . . The editor, Christian Rogowski . . . places in focus not the canonical films of the time like Caligari, Nosferatu, or Metropolis, but instead important films of the 'second rank' and specific thematic connections. . . . Almost all the essays are conceived and formulated at a high level and make visible connections between film and society in the Weimar period. The approximately sixty images are helpful to the reader. . . . [A]n enormously important and didactically helpful intervention . . . . [The book] lives up to the promise of its title and should soon become mandatory reading for everyone interested in new perspectives on Weimar Cinema. The chapters excel in historically contextualizing their respective films. Goes beyond a mere reevaluation of film classics in matters of film and topic selection. . . . The essays offer readers fresh perspectives on . . . a cornucopia of undiscovered or relatively unknown filmic gems, paired with long overdue approaches of media studies . . . . [I]t genuinely rediscovers Germany's filmic legacy. [T]he scholars' excitement about exploring this hitherto uncharted territory is palpable and infectious. The balance of theoretical scaffolding and ambitious storytelling make the articles . . . perfectly suited for undergraduates and should find ample use in film classes...[and] indeed should inspire more classes on the early years of German cinema. Rogowski's outstanding collection moves beyond the familiar canon to reevaluate the diverse legacy of Weimar film...[P]rovide[s] new social, historical, and aesthetic contexts for understanding Weimar cinema and introduce[s] readers to less-familiar popular, abstract, documentary, and genre films. A bold attempt at expanding the field and revising the standard literature. . . . on a formerly neglected set of films and topics. A detailed filmography provides useful information on availability.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781571135322
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1571135324
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2011
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Series Title: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
  • Weight: 560 gr


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