7 Tribulations of a Genius: Traugott Muller's Friedemann Bach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. I Mass Spectacle, History, Cinema: Embodiments of Social Fantasy 17
7. PART I Two Sides of a Coin: The "Jew" and the King as Social Fantasies
8. 2 Courtier, Vampire, or Vermin? Jew Suss's Contradictory Effort to Render the "Jew" Other 47
9. 3 Frederick, the Movie; or, The Return of the King's Body: Fridericus and The Great King 92
10. 4 Building the Body Armor: Hans Steinhoff's The Old and the Young King 126
11. PART II Aestheticized Genius
12. 5 Duel over the Son: Herbert Maisch's Friedrich Schiller - Triumph of a Genius 147
13. 6 Anomaly or "Fascist Delusion of Female Autonomy"? Pabst's Neuberin Film Komodianten 176
14. 7 Tribulations of a Genius: Traugott Muller's Friedemann Bach 203
15. PART III Beyond the Eighteenth Century
16. 8 Vicious Circulation: Money and Foreignness in Nazi Film 231
17. 9 Nazism and Machines 274
18. 10 Of Lies and Life: Munchhausen's Narrative Arabesque 302
19. Select Bibliography 319
20. Filmography 331
21. Index 339