Cinematically Transmitted Disease

Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Propaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial purity and euthanasia, but little has been said on the impact of medical hygiene films. Cinematically Transmitted Disease explores these films for the first time, from their inception during the Weimar era and throughout the years to come. In this innovative volume, author Barbara Hales demonstrates how medical films as well as feature films were circulated among the German people to embed and enforce notions of scientific legitimacy for racial superiority and genetically spread “incurable” diseases, creating and maintaining an instrumental fear of degradation in the German national population.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt372 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFilm Europa
Antal sidor160
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781805394792

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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