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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Empire/Germany: Film and Cinema, Gender and Sexuality -- Weimar Republic/Germany: Film and Cinema, Gender and Sexuality -- National Socialism/Germany: Film and Cinema, Gender and Sexuality -- Concluding Remarks |
| Summary |
The work in media cultural history is a German history of cinema and film from the 1890s to 1945 with a focus on queer masculinity. Using media studies approaches, the study shows how film as a new medium is constituted through performative re-enactments of spectacular elements from the entertainment and knowledge cultures of the 19th century. In it, bodies, desires and identities are constantly remodelled through the formation of difference. Therefore, male queerness here does not mean the representation of male homosexuality. Rather, it is the dynamic result of complex medial processes, in connection with affects and (self-)cognitions on and off screen. This book is a translation of an original German 1st edition Performative Figuren queerer Mannlichkeit by Christiane Konig, published by J.B.Metzler, imprint of Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The author (with the friendly support of Megan Hanson) has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support authors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Masculinity in motion pictures.
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Gay men in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Gay men in motion pictures
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Masculinity in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783476058881 |
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3476058883 |
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