Julian Preece is Professor of German at Swansea University, UK. His previous books include The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (BFI Film Classics, 2022) and (as editor) Andreas Dresen (Peter Lang, 2017). He is the editor of The Journal of European Studies and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: How Can Books Have Cinematic Biographies?Chapter OneSource Texts: Controversy and Control1. Philosophy in the Bedroom: The early years of Venus in Furs2. Welcome to the Dance: the first steps of Reigen3. From Page to Stage: the many lives of LuluChapter TwoWeimar: Prohibition and Experiment1. Reigen is prosecuted in Berlin and Vienna2. Literary afterlives of Venus in Furs3. Lulu on the Silent Screen4. Nazis and the End of FreedomChapter ThreeRestoration: Screening Sex Postwar1. Venus and Furs under cover2. Reigen in No Man’s Land3. Lulu revived, or Louise Brooks foreverChapter FourSploitation: Emancipation in the Marketplace1. Battle over Wanda2. Reigen ambushed by the Sex Wave3. From Life to Art and Art to LifeChapter FiveAvantgarde: Feminisms and Alternative Sexualities1. Radicalism Redux2. Lulu liberated?3. Wanda empowered?4. Reigen Reclaimed?Chapter SixIndie: AIDS, La Ronde, and States of the Nation1. Lulu goes to America2. Polanski’s Prequel to Venus in Fur3. Transatlantic Reigen(i) Snapshots of the City: New York, Toronto, L.A.(ii) Broken Catalonia(iii) American Personal(iv) Return to Berlin(v) Machismo mexicanoChapter SevenHeritage: Lulu's Escape, Wanda's Revenge and the Senator's Smile

Julian Preece is Professor of German at Swansea University, UK. His previous books include The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (BFI Film Classics, 2022) and (as editor) Andreas Dresen (Peter Lang, 2017). He is the editor of The Journal of European Studies and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: How Can Books Have Cinematic Biographies?Chapter OneSource Texts: Controversy and Control1. Philosophy in the Bedroom: The early years of Venus in Furs2. Welcome to the Dance: the first steps of Reigen3. From Page to Stage: the many lives of LuluChapter TwoWeimar: Prohibition and Experiment1. Reigen is prosecuted in Berlin and Vienna2. Literary afterlives of Venus in Furs3. Lulu on the Silent Screen4. Nazis and the End of FreedomChapter ThreeRestoration: Screening Sex Postwar1. Venus and Furs under cover2. Reigen in No Man’s Land3. Lulu revived, or Louise Brooks foreverChapter FourSploitation: Emancipation in the Marketplace1. Battle over Wanda2. Reigen ambushed by the Sex Wave3. From Life to Art and Art to LifeChapter FiveAvantgarde: Feminisms and Alternative Sexualities1. Radicalism Redux2. Lulu liberated?3. Wanda empowered?4. Reigen Reclaimed?Chapter SixIndie: AIDS, La Ronde, and States of the Nation1. Lulu goes to America2. Polanski’s Prequel to Venus in Fur3. Transatlantic Reigen(i) Snapshots of the City: New York, Toronto, L.A.(ii) Broken Catalonia(iii) American Personal(iv) Return to Berlin(v) Machismo mexicanoChapter SevenHeritage: Lulu's Escape, Wanda's Revenge and the Senator's Smile

Julian Preece is Professor of German at Swansea University, UK. His previous books include The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (BFI Film Classics, 2022) and (as editor) Andreas Dresen (Peter Lang, 2017). He is the editor of The Journal of European Studies and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: How Can Books Have Cinematic Biographies?Chapter OneSource Texts: Controversy and Control1. Philosophy in the Bedroom: The early years of Venus in Furs2. Welcome to the Dance: the first steps of Reigen3. From Page to Stage: the many lives of LuluChapter TwoWeimar: Prohibition and Experiment1. Reigen is prosecuted in Berlin and Vienna2. Literary afterlives of Venus in Furs3. Lulu on the Silent Screen4. Nazis and the End of FreedomChapter ThreeRestoration: Screening Sex Postwar1. Venus and Furs under cover2. Reigen in No Man’s Land3. Lulu revived, or Louise Brooks foreverChapter FourSploitation: Emancipation in the Marketplace1. Battle over Wanda2. Reigen ambushed by the Sex Wave3. From Life to Art and Art to LifeChapter FiveAvantgarde: Feminisms and Alternative Sexualities1. Radicalism Redux2. Lulu liberated?3. Wanda empowered?4. Reigen Reclaimed?Chapter SixIndie: AIDS, La Ronde, and States of the Nation1. Lulu goes to America2. Polanski’s Prequel to Venus in Fur3. Transatlantic Reigen(i) Snapshots of the City: New York, Toronto, L.A.(ii) Broken Catalonia(iii) American Personal(iv) Return to Berlin(v) Machismo mexicanoChapter SevenHeritage: Lulu's Escape, Wanda's Revenge and the Senator's Smile