Ashkenazi, Ofer.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.
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Part of the series Studies in European culture and history;Studies in European culture and history.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Weimar Film and Jewish Acculturation — The Jews Have no Shame: The Jewish Tragedy in Weimar Urban Comedy — A Man in the Street, a Jew at Home: Identity and Performance in Weimar Domestic Melodramas — Assimilating the Shrew: Alraune and the Discussion of Biological Difference in Weimar Horror Film — Wandering Jews: A Jewish Solution for Weimar Crisis in Exotic Adventure and War Films — Epilogue.
- This book argues that Weimar genre film was a site where the complexities and challenges of Jewish identity were envisioned and negotiated. In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous German-Jewish symbiosis before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German national film in the years leading to Hitler’s regime — Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
- Jews in motion pictures.
- Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures — Germany — History — 20th century.
- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh
- HISTORY / Europe / Germany. bisacsh
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. bisacsh
- Film. gnd
- Juden. gnd
- Identität. gnd
- Weimarer Republik. gnd
- Akkulturation. gnd
- Kulturelle Identität. gnd
- Deutschland. gnd
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