Contents

Foreword xi Introduction: Gender and German History 1

PART ONE: Film History Before

1. The Oyster Princess and The Doll: Wayward Women of the Early Silent Cinema SABINE HAKE 13 2. The Role of the Vamp in Weimar Cinema: An Analysis of Karl Grune's The Street BRUCE MURRAY 33 3. History and Realism: Representations of Women in G.W. Pabst's The Joyless Street TRACY MYERS 43 4. From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Girls in Uniform B. RUBY RICH 61 5. The Filmic Adaptation of the Novel The Child Manuela: Christa Winsloe's Child Heroine Becomes a Girl in Uniform LISA OHM 97 6. "Only Man Must Be and Remain a Judge, Soldier and Ruler of State": Female as Void in Nazi Film (The Old and Young King, The Broken Jug, Frdulein von Bamhelm) ANKEGLEBER 105 7. Male Gaze and Female Reaction: Veit Harlan's Jew Suss REGINE MIHAL FRIEDMAN 117 v i Contents

8. Die Sunderin or Who Killed the German Male: Early Post- war German Cinema and Betrayal of Fatherland HEIDE FEHRENBACH 135

PART TWO: Historical Films of New German Cinema

9. A Heroine for Our Time: 's ANNAKUHN 163 10. Confronting German History: Melodrama, Distantiation, and Women's Discourse in , Pale Mother RICHARD W. MCCORMICK 185 I I. The Marriage of Maria Braun: History, Melodrama, JOYCE RHEUBAN 207 12. Marianne Rosenbaum and the Aesthetics of Angst (Peppermint Peace) GABRIELE WEINBERGER 227 13. Representing Female Sexuality: On Jutta Bruckner's Film Years of Hunger BARBARA KOSTA 241 14. Interview with Jutta Bruckner: Recognizing Collective Gestures MARC SILBERMAN 253 15. German History and Cinematic Harmonized in Margarethe von Trotta's Marianne andjuliane BARTON BYG 259 16. Re-Presenting the Student Movement: 's The Subjective Factor RICHARD W. MCCORMICK 273

APPENDIX: History and Feminist Film Criticism

17. Frauen und Film and Feminist Film Culture in West Germany MIRIAM HANSEN 293 Contents v

18. Frauen und Film: Then and Now RAMONA CURRY 299

Chronology 309 Filmography 324 Bibliography 327 Notes on Contributors 348 Index ; 351 PPN: 03681122X Titel: Gender and German Cinema / ed. by Sandra Frieden .... - Providence, RI : Berg, 1993 ISBN: 0-85496-323-5; 0-85496-324-3 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund