Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany

Patrice Petro

Published by Princeton University Press 1989

Joyless Streets

Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany

Patrice Petro

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691222066

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Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience, fascinated with looking at images that called traditional representations of gender into question.

Interdisciplinary in her approach, Petro interweaves archival research with recent theoretical debates to offer not merely another view of the Weimar cinema but also another way of looking at Weimar film culture. Women's modernity, she suggests, was not the same as men's modernism, and the image of the city street in film and photojournalism reveals how women responded differently from men to the political, economic, and psychic upheaval of their times.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
LIST OF FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
INTRODUCTION Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
CHAPTER ONE On the Subject of Weimar Film History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER TWO Perceptions of Difference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
CHAPTER THREE Weimar Photojournalism and the Female Reader Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
CHAPTER FOUR Weimar Cinema and the Female Spectator Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
AFTERWORD Feminism and Film History—Joyless Streets Circa 1988 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
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