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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Preface xi
- Introduction: Images and Imaginaries 1
- 1: Richard Oswald and the Social Hygiene Film: Promoting Public Health or Promiscuity? 13
- 2: Unsettling Nerves: Investigating War Trauma in Robert Reinert’s Nerven (1919) 31
- 3: Humanity Unleashed: Anti-Bolshevism as Popular Culture in Early Weimar Cinema 48
- 4: Desire versus Despotism: The Politics of Sumurun (1920), Ernst Lubitsch’s “Oriental” Fantasy 67
- 5: Romeo with Sidelocks: Jewish-Gentile Romance in E. A. Dupont’s Das alte Gesetz (1923) and Other Early Weimar Assimilation Films 84
- 6: “These Hands Are Not My Hands”: War Trauma and Masculinity in Crisis in Robert Wiene’s Orlacs Hände (1924) 102
- 7: The Star System in Weimar Cinema 116
- 8: Schaulust: Sexuality and Trauma in Conrad Veidt’s Masculine Masquerades 134
- 9: The Musical Promise of Abstract Film 153
- 10: The International Project of National(ist) Film: Franz Osten in India 167
- 11: The Body in Time: Wilhelm Prager’s Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925) 182
- 12: Henrik Galeen’s Alraune (1927): The Vamp and The Root of Horror 198
- 13: The Dialectic of (Sexual) Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dieterle’s Geschlecht in Fesseln (1928) 211
- 14: Babel’s Business — On Ufa’s Multiple Language Film Versions, 1929–1933 235
- 15: “A New Era of Peace and Understanding”: The Integration of Sound Film into German Popular Cinema, 1929–1932 249
- 16: Landscapes of Death: Space and the Mobilization Genre in G. W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918 (1930) 268
- 17: Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas’s Niemandsland (1931) 286
- 18: Unmasking Brigitte Helm and Marlene Dietrich: The Vamp in German Romantic Comedies (1930–33) 299
- Filmography 317
- Notes on the Contributors 329
- Index 333
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Preface xi
- Introduction: Images and Imaginaries 1
- 1: Richard Oswald and the Social Hygiene Film: Promoting Public Health or Promiscuity? 13
- 2: Unsettling Nerves: Investigating War Trauma in Robert Reinert’s Nerven (1919) 31
- 3: Humanity Unleashed: Anti-Bolshevism as Popular Culture in Early Weimar Cinema 48
- 4: Desire versus Despotism: The Politics of Sumurun (1920), Ernst Lubitsch’s “Oriental” Fantasy 67
- 5: Romeo with Sidelocks: Jewish-Gentile Romance in E. A. Dupont’s Das alte Gesetz (1923) and Other Early Weimar Assimilation Films 84
- 6: “These Hands Are Not My Hands”: War Trauma and Masculinity in Crisis in Robert Wiene’s Orlacs Hände (1924) 102
- 7: The Star System in Weimar Cinema 116
- 8: Schaulust: Sexuality and Trauma in Conrad Veidt’s Masculine Masquerades 134
- 9: The Musical Promise of Abstract Film 153
- 10: The International Project of National(ist) Film: Franz Osten in India 167
- 11: The Body in Time: Wilhelm Prager’s Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925) 182
- 12: Henrik Galeen’s Alraune (1927): The Vamp and The Root of Horror 198
- 13: The Dialectic of (Sexual) Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dieterle’s Geschlecht in Fesseln (1928) 211
- 14: Babel’s Business — On Ufa’s Multiple Language Film Versions, 1929–1933 235
- 15: “A New Era of Peace and Understanding”: The Integration of Sound Film into German Popular Cinema, 1929–1932 249
- 16: Landscapes of Death: Space and the Mobilization Genre in G. W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918 (1930) 268
- 17: Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas’s Niemandsland (1931) 286
- 18: Unmasking Brigitte Helm and Marlene Dietrich: The Vamp in German Romantic Comedies (1930–33) 299
- Filmography 317
- Notes on the Contributors 329
- Index 333
