Introduction. The Jewishness of Weimar Cinema / Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein -- Part 1. Jewish Visibility On and Off Screen : Humanizing Shylock: The "Jewish Type" in Weimar Film / Maya Barzilai -- Energizing the Dramaturgy: How Jewishness Shaped Alexander Granach's Performances in Weimar Cinema / Margrit Frölich -- The Jewish Vamp of Berlin: Actress Maria Orska, Typecasting, and Jewish Women / Kerry Wallach -- Jewish Comedians beyond Lubitsch: Siegfried Arno in Film and Cabaret / Mila Ganeva -- Alfred Rosenthal's Rhetoric of Collaboration, the Politics of Jewish Visibility, and Jewish Weimar Film Print Culture / Ervin Malakaj -- Part 2. Coding and Decoding Jewish Difference : Two Worlds, Three Friends, and the Mysterious Seven-Branched Candelabrum: Jewish Filmmaking in Weimar Germany / Philipp Stiasny -- Homosexual Emancipation, Queer Masculinity, and Jewish Difference in Anders als die Andern (1919) / Valerie Weinstein -- Der Film ohne Juden: G.W. Pabst's Die freudlose Gasse (1925) / Lisa Silverman -- "The World Is Funny, Like a Dream": Franziska Gaal's Verwechslungskomödien and Exile's Crisis of Identity / Anjeana K. Hans -- Part 3. Jewishness as Antisemitic Construct : Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Weimar's Perpetuation of the Jewish Syphilis Conspiracy / Barbara Hales -- The Einstein Film: Animation, Relativity, and the Charge of "Jewish Science" / Brook Henkel -- "A Clarion Call to Strike Back": Antisemitism and Ludwig Berger's Der Meister von Nürnberg (1927) / Christian Rogowski -- Banning Jewishness: Stefan Zweig, Robert Siodmak, and the Nazis / Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert -- Detoxification: Nazi Remakes of E.A. Dupont's Blockbusters / Ofer Ashkenazi -- Coda : "Filmrettung: Save the Past for the Future!": Film Restoration and Jewishness in German and Austrian Silent Cinema / Cynthia Walk -- Afterword / Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein.
Summary:
"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 - these studies offer a wide-ranging exploration of an often overlooked aspect of German film history"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Film Europa : German cinema in an international context ; volume 24
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