Anders als die Andern

✍ Scribed by Ervin Malakaj

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Series: Queer Film Classics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A new interpretation of an iconic early queer film that recaptures mourning as form of engagement.

Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern is a remarkable artefact of the pre-Stonewall homosexual rights movement of early-twentieth-century Germany. Ervin Malakaj shows how the film’s “mournful cinema” is key to its endurance, fostering connection through emotions and acting as a springboard to engage in an intergenerational queer struggle.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Anders als die Andern
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Credits
Introduction: The Pleasures and Pains of Watching Anders als die Andern
1 Producing Anders als die Andern: Melodrama between Genre Cinema and Public Health Discourse
2 The Form of Melodrama: Gesture, Anguish, and Queer Life in Anders als die Andern
3 Feeling Backward with Anders als die Andern
Conclusion: The Queer Cinema of Mourning
Notes
References
Index