Cinematically Transmitted Disease

Barbara Hales is a Professor of History and Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and President of the Houston based organization, Center for Medicine After the Holocaust. She is the author of Black Magic Woman: Gender and the Occult in Weimar Germany (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2021). She has also co-edited volumes Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema 1928-1936 for Camden House in 2016 (with Mihaela Petrescu and Valerie Weinstein), and Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema for Berghahn Books in 2021 (with Valerie Weinstein).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Eugenics, Disability, and Cinema in Weimar and Nazi GermanyChapter 1. Trauma, Eugenics, and the World War One Veteran in Weimar FilmChapter 2. Eugenic Doctors, Syphilis, and Jewish Representation: Racial Hygiene Film in Weimar and ExileChapter 3. Sterilization and the T-4 Program: Nazi Eugenic FilmsChapter 4. Wild Euthanasia and Nazi Eugenic CinemaConclusionBibliographyIndex