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Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar cinema /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
Series:Film Europa: German cinema in an international context ; volume 24
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Germany > History > 20th century.
Jews in the motion picture industry > Germany.
Jewish motion picture producers and directors > Germany.
Germany > Civilization > Jewish influences.
Civilization > Jewish influences.
Jewish motion picture producers and directors.
Jews in the motion picture industry.
Motion pictures.
Germany.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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 Visbility, 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 al die Andern (1919)
  • Chapter 8
  • Der Film ohne
  • 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