Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar cinema

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"The 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 - th…

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Full title :Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar cinema / edited by Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein.

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Publication Date:2021.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021.

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Description:1 online resource#x1E.

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ISBN:9781789208726, 1789208726, 9781789208733, 1789208734
oclc:on1203133060
LC Classification:PN1993.5.G3
Dewey Decimal:791.430943/09042

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 Perp…

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Cinéma -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. -- Al… Germany History Jewish motion picture producers and dir… Jewish motion picture producers and dir… Jews in the motion picture industry Jews in the motion picture industry -- … Juifs dans l'industrie cinématographiqu… Motion pictures Motion pictures -- History -- 20th cent… PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Histor… Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma j…