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OverviewThe 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 approaches to understanding the significant involvement of German Jews in Weimar cinema. Reflecting upon different conceptions of Jewishness - as religion, ethnicity, social role, cultural code, or text - these studies offer a wide-ranging exploration of an often overlooked aspect of German film history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barbara Hales , Valerie WeinsteinPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781800739482ISBN 10: 1800739486 Pages: 388 Publication Date: 10 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: The Jewishness of Weimar Cinema Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein Part I: Jewish Visibility On and Off Screen Chapter 1. Humanizing Shylock: The Jewish Type in Weimar Film Maya Barzilai Chapter 2. Energizing the Dramaturgy: How Jewishness Shaped Alexander Granach's Performances in Weimar Cinema Margrit Froelich Chapter 3. The Jewish Vamp of Berlin: Actress Maria Orska, Typecasting, and Jewish Women Kerry Wallach Chapter 4. Jewish Comedians beyond Lubitsch: Siegfried Arno in Film and Cabaret Mila Ganeva Chapter 5. Alfred Rosenthal's Rhetoric of Collaboration, the Politics of Jewish Visibility, and Jewish Weimar Film Print Culture Ervin Malakaj Part II: Coding and Decoding Jewish Difference Chapter 6. Two Worlds, Three Friends, and the Mysterious Seven-Branched Candelabrum: Jewish Filmmaking in Weimar Germany Philipp Stiasny Chapter 7. Homosexual Emancipation, Queer Masculinity, and Jewish Difference in Anders als die Andern (1919) Valerie Weinstein Chapter 8. Der Film ohne Juden: G.W. Pabst's Die freudlose Gasse (1925) Lisa Silverman Chapter 9. The World is Funny, Like a Dream: Franziska Gaal's Verwechslungskomoedien and Exile's Crisis of Identity Anjeana K. Hans Part III: Jewishness as Antisemitic Construct Chapter 10. Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Weimar's Perpetuation of the Jewish Syphilis Conspiracy Barbara Hales Chapter 11. The Einstein Film: Animation, Relativity, and the Charge of Jewish Science Brook Henkel Chapter 12. A Clarion Call to Strike Back : Antisemitism and Ludwig Berger's Der Meister von Nurnberg (1927) Christian Rogowski Chapter 13. Banning Jewishness: Stefan Zweig, Robert Siodmak, and the Nazis Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert Chapter 14. Detoxification: Nazi Remakes of E. A. Dupont's Blockbusters Ofer Ashkenazi Coda Chapter 15. Filmrettung: Save the Past for the Future! : Film Restoration and Jewishness in German and Austrian Silent Cinema Cynthia Walk Afterword Barbara Hales and Valerie WeinsteinReviewsThe 'Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context' series is increasingly indispensable for those interested in film history or media studies. This collection appears in that series, and Hales and Weinstein provide a masterful introduction that places the historical bookmark where it belongs: everything starts with Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler: Psychological History of the German Film (1947) and Lotte Eisner's The Haunted Screen (1952)... Highly Recommended. * Choice An important contribution to an understanding of filmmaking in Germany during the Weimar Republic. This volume offers a multi-faceted, in-depth investigation into the Jewish presence in Weimar cinema both on screen, in various genres, and off screen through biographical sketches and film reviews. * Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Film makes a significant and welcome contribution to the study of Weimar film, to German film studies in general, and to German Jewish studies. It presents detailed research and analysis of important Weimar films, artists, and critics; most of them have not been examined in much detail by other scholars, and when they have been, they have rarely been analyzed in relation to Jewishness, a concept that this volume explores in a very nuanced manner. * Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota Author InformationBarbara Hales is a Professor of History and Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Her publications focus on film history of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. She is the author of Black Magic Woman: Gender and the Occult in Weimar Germany (Peter Lang, 2021). Along with Mihaela Petrescu and Valerie Weinstein, she also co-edited a volume entitled Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 (Camden House, 2016). Dr. Hales is President of the Center for Medicine After the Holocaust. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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