Gender and the uncanny in films of the Weimar Republic /Anjeana K. Hans.
- Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) : illustrations.
- Contemporary approaches to film and media series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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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Motion pictures--History--Germany--20th century. Women in motion pictures. Sex role in motion pictures. Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)