ISBN:
9780230341364
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 234 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. ed.
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
Studies in European culture and history
DDC:
791.43/652924
Keywords:
Jews in motion pictures
;
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures
;
Motion pictures History 20th century
;
Weimarer Republik
;
Judentum
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Film
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliography (p. [203] - 225) and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36138
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41833
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