Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic

<p>The Weimar period in Germany was a time of radical change when the traditions and social hierarchies of Imperial Germany crumbled and a young deeply conflicted republic emerged. Modernity brought changes that reached deep into the most personal aspects of life including a loosening of gender roles that opened up new freedoms and opportunities to women. The screen vamps garçonnes and New Women in this movie-hungry society came to embody the new image of womanhood: sexually liberated independent and—at least to some—deeply threatening. In <em>Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic</em> author Anjeana K. Hans examines largely forgotten films of Weimar cinema through the lens of their historical moment contemporary concerns and critiques and modern film theory to give a nuanced understanding of their significance and their complex interplay between gender subjectivity and cinema.</p>