Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936.
New essays examining the differences and commonalities between late Weimar-era and early Nazi-era German cinema against a backdrop of the crises of that time.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Melton :
Boydell & Brewer,
2016.
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| Col·lecció: | Screen cultures.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1kzcc8p |
Taula de continguts:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Politics; 1: "Timid Heresies": Werner Hochbaum's Razzia in St. Pauli (1932); 2: Film as Pedagogy in Late Weimar and Early Nazi Cinema: The Role of the Street in Mobilizing the Spectator; Part II. The Economy; 3: "A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups": Financial and Cinematic Crises in Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931); 4: "Denn Gold ist Glück und Fluch dieser Welt": Examining the Trope of "Gold" in Gold (1934) and Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (1936); Part III. Concepts of Race and Ethnicity.
- 5: Degenerate Disease and the Doctors of Death: Racial Hygiene Film as Propaganda in Weimar and Early Nazi Germany6: "White Jews" and Dark Continents: Capitalist Critique and Its Racial Undercurrents in Detlef Sierck's April! April! (1935); Part IV. Genre Cinema; 7: The Zigeunerdrama Reloaded: Leni Riefenstahl's Fantasy Gypsies and Sacrificial Others; 8: Regaining Mobility: The Aviator in Weimar Mountain Films; Part V. Making Cinema Stars; 9: Brigitte Helm and Germany's Star System in the 1920s and 1930s; 10: Foreign Attractions: Czech Stars and Ethnic Masquerade; Part VI. Film Technologies.
- 11: Objects in Motion: Hans Richter's Vormittagsspuk (1928) and the Crisis of Avant-Garde Film12: Seeing Crisis in Harry Piel's Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt (1933); Part VII. German-International Film Relations; 13: Playing the European Market: Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent (1928), Ufa, and German-French Film Relations; 14: A Serious Man? Ernst Lubitsch's Antiwar Film The Man I Killed (aka Broken Lullaby, USA 1932); Selected Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index.