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Since the Weimar era, German cinema has played a leading role in the innovation of gay and lesbian cinema, with the tantalizing sexual illegibility and gender instability of German films of the 1920s anticipating the queer sensibilities of the 1990s. From such cross-dressing Weimar comedies as Viktor und Victoria to the transgender fantasies of Ulrike Ottinger, Monika Treut, and Hans Scheirl, this filmic tradition explores the unconventional erotic, its directors inventing a visual language that goes beyond the trivialization and sensationalism of mainstream representations of gays and lesbians. This cinema crosses the boundaries between such classifications as male and female, gay and bisexual, normal and pathological, insisting that such transgressions cannot be entirely tamed, regulated, or closeted. Previous scholarship, reading this national cinema as sociopolitical commentary, has tended to ignore what falls outside a realist, hetero-normative paradigm. In this book, the author aims to rectify this neglect by rewriting German cinematic history queerly.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Queer German Cinema
• Author: Alice A. Kuzniar
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780804737487
• ISBN: 0804737487
• ID: 04717044
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 642 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 237 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2000

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