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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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      Published 21 March 1989
      ISBN-13 9780691008301
      978-0691008301
      ISBN-10 0691008302
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      Films, cinema

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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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