Gender and sexuality in Weimar modernity : film, literature, and "new objectivity" /
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| Author / Creator: | McCormick, Richard W., 1951- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Palgrave, 2001. |
| Description: | x, 240 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4596433 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction. Blurred Boundaries: Modernity, Crisis, and Emancipation in the Culture of the Weimar Republic
- Chapter 2. From Caligari to Dietrich: Anxieties About Sex and Gender in Weimar Cinema and Culture
- Chapter 3. "New Objectivity": Ambivalent Accommodations with Modernity
- Chapter 4. Boys in Crisis: Discourses of Castration in the Early Stabilized Period
- A.. The Carnival of Humiliation, I: Literal Castration--as Metaphor--in Ernst Toller's Drama Hinkemann (1924)
- B.. The Carnival of Humiliation, II: Sex and Social Mobility, Mass Spectacle and Reflexivity in E.A. Dupont's Film Variety (1925)
- C.. Impotence and Therapy, Excess and Containment: "Curing" Male Crisis in G.W. Pabst's Film Secrets of a Soul (Geheimnisse einer Seele) (1926)
- Chapter 5. The End of Stability: "Phallic" New Women and Male Intellectuals
- A.. Amoral Modernity as New Woman: Erich Kastner's Novel Fabian (1931)
- B.. The Cabaret of Humiliation: Gender, Spectacle, and Spectatorship in Josef von Sternberg's Film The Blue Angel (1930)
- Chapter 6. Girls in Crisis: Women's Perspectives in Late Weimar
- A.. Mass Culture, Downward Mobility, and Female Resistance: Irmgard Keun's Novel The Artificial Silk Girl (1932)
- B.. Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Film Madchen in Uniform (1931)
- Chapter 7. Weimar Culture Now: "Americanism" and Post/Modernity
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
