The Queer German Cinema

by Alice Kuzniar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739951
• ISBN13: 9780804739955
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"