Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index.
Contents:
Weimar Culture Now: "Americanism" and Post/Modernity. From Caligari to Dietrich: Anxieties About Sex and Gender in Weimar Cinema and Culture -- "New Objectivity": Ambivalent Accommodations with Modernity -- Boys in Crisis: Discourses of Castration in the Early Stabilized Period -- The Carnival of Humiliation, I: Literal Castration--as Metaphor--in Ernst Toller's Drama Hinkemann (1924) -- The Carnival of Humiliation, II: Sex and Social Mobility, Mass Spectacle and Reflexivity in E.A. Dupont's Film Variety (1925) -- Impotence and Therapy, Excess and Containment: "Curing" Male Crisis in G.W. Pabst's Film Secrets of a Soul (Geheimnisse einer Seele) (1926) -- The End of Stability: "Phallic" New Women and Male Intellectuals -- Amoral Modernity as New Woman: Erich Kastner's Novel Fabian (1931) -- The Cabaret of Humiliation: Gender, Spectacle, and Spectatorship in Josef von Sternberg's Film The Blue Angel (1930) -- Girls in Crisis: Women's Perspectives in Late Weimar -- Mass Culture, Downward Mobility, and Female Resistance: Irmgard Keun's Novel The Artificial Silk Girl (1932) -- Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Film Madchen in Uniform (1931) -- Weimar Culture Now: "Americanism" and Post/Modernity.
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