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THE FEMALE IN GERMAN MODERNISMS - GEETHA RAMANT...

Based on scholarly familiarity with the history and study of international modernisms  the book
takes the case of Germany  where it is most clearly identified as Expressionism. The analyses
here that examine borrowings across the arts ¿ painting  film  and literature ¿ suggest that
Expressionism alone is insufficient for an explanation of German modernism. Instead  the book
proposes that we should think of modernism as a hydra headed aesthetic phenomenon that includes
realism to compose an incomplete modernism. The interarts study focuses on how new modernist
visualities  conceived more expansively to include silent film and scripts  locate women in
modernity. The readings of silent film in conjunction with the art of Die Brücke find that the
figure of the female  and the perspectives used by the artists are influenced by the techniques
of silent cinema. The book shows that with each of the twenty texts under consideration 
borrowings from other arts influence the woman¿s inclusion into the modern world. Detailed
analyses of texts  using this intermedial approach  include Kokoschkäs play Murderer  Hope of
Women  Urban Gad¿s film The Abyss  E.L. Kirchner¿s woodcuts and Street Scenes  Elsa
Lasker-Schüler¿s film script Plum-Pascha  and Döblin¿s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz.

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