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Challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in illustrated magazines, this work she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience.

Joyless Streets Women and Melodramatic

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/03/1989
      ISBN13: 9780691008301, 978-0691008301
      ISBN10: 0691008302
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      Book Synopsis
      Challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in illustrated magazines, this work she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience.

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