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Weimar film and modern Jewish identity / Ofer Ashkenazi

Ashkenazi, ʿOfer, 1974-

1. ed.

New York, NY [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

XVI, 234 S. : Ill.

Englisch

Weimar Film and Jewish Acculturation -- The Jews Have no Shame: The "Jewish Tragedy" in Weimar Urban Comedy -- A Man in the Street, a Jew at Home: Identity and Performance in Weimar Domestic Melodramas -- Assimilating the Shrew: Alraune and the Discussion of Biological Difference in Weimar Horror Film -- Wandering Jews: A "Jewish" Solution for Weimar Crisis in Exotic Adventure and War Films -- Epilogue.

Includes bibliography (p. [203] - 225) and index

eb 20240324 ; 1 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

978-0-230-34136-4 (hardback)

2011037121

9780230341364

OCoLC: 780394878     

OCoLC: 780394878 (aus SWB)     

AP 50300  | AP 44910      Ähnliche Literatur

PN1995.9.J46

791.43/652924

Basisklassifikation: 24.32 (Filmgeschichte) ; 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel)

*Weimarer Republik ; Judentum <Motiv> ; Kulturelle Identität <Motiv> ; Film      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews in motion pictures ; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures ; Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century

"This book argues that Weimar genre film was a site where the complexities and challenges of Jewish identity were envisioned and negotiated. In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous "German-Jewish symbiosis" before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German "national" film in the years leading to Hitler's regime"--

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"This book argues that Weimar genre film was a site where the complexities and challenges of Jewish identity were envisioned and negotiated. In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous "German-Jewish symbiosis" before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German "national" film in the years leading to Hitler's regime"--

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