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Private Anxieties/Public Projections: "New Objectivity," Male Subjectivity, and Weimar Cinema

Authors :
McCormick, Richard W.
Source :
Women in German Yearbook (Project Muse); October 1995, Vol. 10 Issue: 1 p1-18, 18p
Publication Year :
1995

Abstract

Abstract:The so-called "New Objectivity" in the arts and culture of the Weimar Republic was characterized by an erosion of the boundary between the "high culture" associated with the bourgeois public sphere and new forms of mass culture directed at other classes in the emerging modern consumer society. Related to this erosion of boundaries were anxieties about the destabilization of traditional models of (national, ethnic, class, gender, sexual) identity. Change seemed especially threatening in its effect on traditional ("natural") gender roles, as can readily be demonstrated in G.W. Pabst's film Geheimnisse einer Seele(1926). Similar anxieties about gender are also crucial to subsequent developments in German culture and society. (RWM)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10587446 and 1940512X
Volume :
10
Issue :
1
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
Women in German Yearbook (Project Muse)
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
ejs38273795