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In a series of tightly interconnected close readings of 'uncanny' narratives of 'transgressive feminity' in Weimar cinema, Anjeana K. Hans demonstrates how films from the period negotiate the changing gender dynamics after the First World War and how they engage in a self-examination of the changing function of cinema itself. Theoretically sophisticated and elegantly written, this engaging study brilliantly succeeds in unearthing the manifold ways-complex and often contradictory-in which Weimar-era genre films that centered on fantasies of (female) empowerment and (potential) punishment appealed to diverse audiences, male and female alike.--Christian Rogowski G. Armour Craig Professor in Language and Literature In the Department of German, Amherst College, editor of The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema Anjeana K. Hans admirably continues the important work of rethinking Weimar cinema, which has long been overshadowed by the catastrophe of the Third Reich. Starting with the trauma of WWI, Hans argues convincingly that uncanny films populated with unruly women offered a fundamental and revolutionary visual language that fascinated the audiences of the Weimar Republic and beyond. These images gave German cinema its golden age.--Randall Halle Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Europeanization of Cinema: Interzones and Imaginative Communities and German Film after Germany: Toward a Transnational Aesthetic A key contribution of the book is Hans's focus on the less-known genre films of well-known directors, including Ernst Lubitsch, Richard Oswald, and Robert Wiene-film that are unfortunately mostly unavailable outside the archive.--H. D. Baer Choice (04/01/2015) A seminal work of original research and cinematic scholarship, Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic by Anjeana K. Hans is a unique contribution that should be considered a critically important addition to academic library 20th Century German Popular Culture and 20th Century Cinematic Studies reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.-- (12/01/2014)

Anjeana K. Hans admirably continues the important work of rethinking Weimar cinema, which has long been overshadowed by the catastrophe of the Third Reich. Starting with the trauma of WWI, Hans argues convincingly that uncanny films populated with unruly women offered a fundamental and revolutionary visual language that fascinated the audiences of the Weimar Republic and beyond. These images gave German cinema its golden age.--Randall Halle Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Europeanization of Cinema: Interzones and Imaginative Communities and German Film after Germany: Toward a Transnational Aesthetic A key contribution of the book is Hans's focus on the less-known genre films of well-known directors, including Ernst Lubitsch, Richard Oswald, and Robert Wiene-film that are unfortunately mostly unavailable outside the archive.--H. D. Baer Choice (04/01/2015) In a series of tightly interconnected close readings of 'uncanny' narratives of 'transgressive feminity' in Weimar cinema, Anjeana K. Hans demonstrates how films from the period negotiate the changing gender dynamics after the First World War and how they engage in a self-examination of the changing function of cinema itself. Theoretically sophisticated and elegantly written, this engaging study brilliantly succeeds in unearthing the manifold ways-complex and often contradictory-in which Weimar-era genre films that centered on fantasies of (female) empowerment and (potential) punishment appealed to diverse audiences, male and female alike.--Christian Rogowski G. Armour Craig Professor in Language and Literature In the Department of German, Amherst College, editor of The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema A seminal work of original research and cinematic scholarship, Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic by Anjeana K. Hans is a unique contribution that should be considered a critically important addition to academic library 20th Century German Popular Culture and 20th Century Cinematic Studies reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.-- (12/01/2014)

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Anjeana K. Hans is assistant professor of German at Wellesley College. Her teaching and research focuses on German literature, film, and culture of the early twentieth century, and she is interested in questions of gender, subjectivity, and identity.

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