Gender and the uncanny in films of the Weimar Republic /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit, Michigan :
Wayne State University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The world turned upside down : changing society, changing gender roles, changing medium in Weimar Germany
- The eyes of the mummy (Die Augen der Mumie Mâ, Ernst Lubitsch, 1918) : from the monster with the "eyes that live" to the passive object of the male gaze
- Uncanny tales (Unheimliche Geschichten, Richard Oswald, 1919) : the many guises of the dangerous woman
- Warning shadows (Schatten : Eine nächtliche Halluzination, Artur Robison, 1923) : transgression, abjection, projection
- The hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände, Robert Wiene, 1924) : war trauma, injury, and the return to a changed world
- A daughter of destiny (Alraune, Henrik Galeen, 1928) and daughter of evil (Alraune, Richard Oswald, 1930) : from dangerous hybrid to self-sacrificing woman.
