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Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature and New Objectivity Book

This work looks at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through the analysis of selected cultural texts. It traces the crisis of gender identities both male and female and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.Read More

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    Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through an analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label "New Objectivity". The New Objectivity was marked by a sober, unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contrast to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in "auratic" art. This sensibility was gendered as well as contradictory: while associated with male intellectuals, New Objectivity was best symbolized by the New Woman they feared (and desired). Moving skillfully from Caligari to Dietrich, McCormick traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.

  • 031229302X
  • 9780312293024
  • Richard McCormick
  • 28 March 2002
  • Saint Martin's Press Inc.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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