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Author Hans, Anjeana K., author.

Title Gender and the uncanny in films of the Weimar Republic / Anjeana K. Hans.

Publication Info. Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
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.
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Subject Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women in motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hans, Anjeana K., author. Gender and the uncanny in films of the Weimar Republic 9780814338940 (DLC) 2014931742 (OCoLC)870987780
ISBN 9780814338940
0814338941
9780814338957 electronic book
081433895X electronic book