{"product_id":"rethinking-jewishness-in-weimar-cinema-9781789208726","title":"Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish “outsiders” to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to understanding the significant involvement of German Jews in Weimar cinema. Reflecting upon different conceptions of Jewishness – as religion, ethnicity, social role, cultural code, or text – these studies offer a wide-ranging exploration of an often overlooked aspect of German film history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The ‘Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context’ series is increasingly indispensable for those interested in film history or media studies. This collection appears in that series, and Hales and Weinstein provide a masterful introduction that places the historical bookmark where it belongs: everything starts with Siegfried Kracauer's \u003c\/em\u003eFrom Caligari to Hitler: Psychological History of the German Film\u003cem\u003e (1947) and Lotte Eisner's \u003c\/em\u003eThe Haunted Screen \u003cem\u003e(1952)… Highly Recommended.” \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“An important contribution to an understanding of filmmaking in Germany during the Weimar Republic. This volume offers a multi-faceted, in-depth investigation into the Jewish presence in Weimar cinema both on screen, in various genres, and off screen through biographical sketches and film reviews.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Barbara Kosta\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Arizona\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eRethinking Jewishness in Weimar Film \u003cem\u003emakes a significant and welcome contribution to the study of Weimar film, to German film studies in general, and to German Jewish studies. It presents detailed research and analysis of important Weimar films, artists, and critics; most of them have not been examined in much detail by other scholars, and when they have been, they have rarely been analyzed in relation to Jewishness, a concept that this volume explores in a very nuanced manner.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Rick McCormick\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Minnesota\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Jewishness of Weimar Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBarbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Jewish Visibility On and Off Screen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Humanizing Shylock: The “Jewish Type” in Weimar Film\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaya Barzilai\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Energizing the Dramaturgy: How Jewishness Shaped Alexander Granach’s Performances in Weimar Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMargrit Frölich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Jewish Vamp of Berlin: Actress Maria Orska, Typecasting, and Jewish Women\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKerry Wallach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Jewish Comedians beyond Lubitsch: Siegfried Arno in Film and Cabaret\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMila Ganeva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Alfred Rosenthal’s Rhetoric of Collaboration, the Politics of Jewish Visibility, and Jewish Weimar Film Print Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eErvin Malakaj\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Coding and Decoding Jewish Difference\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two Worlds, Three Friends, and the Mysterious Seven-Branched Candelabrum: Jewish Filmmaking in Weimar Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePhilipp Stiasny\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Homosexual Emancipation, Queer Masculinity, and Jewish Difference in \u003cem\u003eAnders als die Andern\u003c\/em\u003e (1919)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eValerie Weinstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Der Film ohne Juden: G.W. Pabst’s \u003cem\u003eDie freudlose Gasse\u003c\/em\u003e (1925)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLisa Silverman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e “The World is Funny, Like a Dream:” Franziska Gaal’s Verwechslungskomödien and Exile’s Crisis of Identity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnjeana K. Hans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Jewishness as Antisemitic Construct\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Weimar’s Perpetuation of the Jewish Syphilis Conspiracy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBarbara Hales\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Einstein Film: Animation, Relativity, and the Charge of “Jewish Science”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBrook Henkel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e “A Clarion Call to Strike Back”: Antisemitism and Ludwig Berger's \u003cem\u003eDer Meister von Nürnberg\u003c\/em\u003e (1927)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristian Rogowski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Banning Jewishness: Stefan Zweig, Robert Siodmak, and the Nazis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndréas-Benjamin Seyfert\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Detoxification: Nazi Remakes of E. 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