Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 559 g
Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 559 g
Reihe: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
ISBN: 978-1-57113-532-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
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 on film 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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
1 Introduction: Images and Imaginaries
2 Richard Oswald and the Social Hygiene Film: Promoting Public Health or Promiscuity?
3 Unsettling Nerves: Investigating War Trauma in Robert Reinert's Nerven (1919)
4 Humanity Unleashed: Anti-Bolshevism as Popular Culture in Early Weimar Cinema
5 Desire versus Despotism: The Politics of Sumurun (1920), Ernst Lubitsch's "Oriental" Fantasy
6 Romeo with Sidelocks: Jewish-Gentile Romance in E. A. Dupont's Das alte Gesetz (1923) and Other Early Weimar Assimilation Films
7 "These Hands Are Not My Hands": War Trauma and Masculinity in Crisis in Robert Wiene's Orlacs Hände (1924)
8 The Star System in Weimar Cinema
9 Schaulust: Sexuality and Trauma in Conrad Veidt's Masculine Masquerades
10 The Musical Promise of Abstract Film
11 The International Project of National(ist) Film: Franz Osten in India
12 The Body in Time: Wilhelm Prager's Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925)
13 Henrik Galeen's Alraune (1927): The Vamp and The Root of Horror
14 The Dialectic of (Sexual) Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dieterle's Geschlecht in Fesseln (1928)
15 Babel's Business - On Ufa's Multiple Language Film Versions, 1929-1933
16 "A New Era of Peace and Understanding":The Integration of Sound Film into German Popular Cinema, 1929-1932
17 Landscapes of Death: Space and the Mobilization Genre in G. W. Pabst's Westfront 1918 (1930)
18 Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas's Niemandsland (1931)
19 Unmasking Brigitte Helm and Marlene Dietrich: The Vamp in German Romantic Comedies (1930-33)
20 Filmography
21 Notes on the Contributors
22 Index
