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

CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 12
Introduction: Images and Imaginaries......Page 16
1: Richard Oswald and the Social Hygiene Film: Promoting Public Health or Promiscuity?......Page 28
2: Unsettling Nerves: Investigating War Trauma in Robert Reinert’s Nerven (1919)......Page 46
3: Humanity Unleashed: Anti-Bolshevism as Popular Culture in Early Weimar Cinema......Page 63
4: Desire versus Despotism: The Politics of Sumurun (1920), Ernst Lubitsch’s “Oriental” Fantasy......Page 82
5: Romeo with Sidelocks: Jewish-Gentile Romance in E. A. Dupont’s Das alte Gesetz (1923) and Other Early Weimar Assimilation Films......Page 99
6: “These Hands Are Not My Hands”: War Trauma and Masculinity in Crisis in Robert Wiene’s Orlacs Hände (1924)......Page 117
7: The Star System in Weimar Cinema......Page 131
8: Schaulust: Sexuality and Trauma in Conrad Veidt’s Masculine Masquerades......Page 149
9: The Musical Promise of Abstract Film......Page 168
10: The International Project of National(ist) Film: Franz Osten in India......Page 182
11: The Body in Time: Wilhelm Prager’s Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925)......Page 197
12: Henrik Galeen’s Alraune (1927): The Vamp and the Root of Horror......Page 213
13: The Dialectic of (Sexual) Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dieterle’s Geschlecht in Fesseln (1928)......Page 226
14: Babel’s Business — On Ufa’s Multiple Language Film Versions, 1929–1933......Page 250
15: “A New Era of Peace and Understanding”: The Integration of Sound Film into German Popular Cinema, 1929–1932......Page 264
16: Landscapes of Death: Space and the Mobilization Genre in G. W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918 (1930)......Page 283
17: Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas’s Niemandsland (1931)......Page 301
18: Unmasking Brigitte Helm and Marlene Dietrich: The Vamp in German Romantic Comedies (1930–33)......Page 314
FILMOGRAPHY......Page 332
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 344
INDEX......Page 348