Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Figures ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Gender Inverts and Cross-Dressers: Reading for a Queer Weimar Cinema 21
7. 2. "Now I Have a Different Desire": Transgender Specularity in Zarah Leander and R. W Fassbinder 57
8. 3. The Pink Peril: Rosa von Praunheim 88
9. 4. "The Passionate Evidence" of Werner Schroeter's Maria Malibran and Der Rosenkiinig 113
10. 5. Allegory, Androgyny, Anamorphosis: Ulrike Ottinger's Dorian Gray 139
11. 6. Lesbians Abroad: The Queer Nationhood of Monika Treut et al 157
12. 7. A Gay Melancholia: Michael Stock's Prinz in Hiilleland 174
13. 8. Experimental Visions: Brynntrup, Müller, Schillinger, Scheid, and Pürrer 186
14. 9. Dyke Nair Animation 236
15. Epilogue. An Erotics of Transgression: Queer Cinema and Counterpolitics 256
16. Appendix: Source Guide 267
17. Notes 271
18. Works Cited 291
19. Index 303