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).

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Acknowledgments



Introduction: Eugenics, Disability, and Cinema in Weimar and Nazi Germany



Chapter 1. Trauma, Eugenics, and the World War One Veteran in Weimar Film

Chapter 2. Eugenic Doctors, Syphilis, and Jewish Representation: Racial Hygiene Film in Weimar and Exile

Chapter 3. Sterilization and the T-4 Program: Nazi Eugenic Films

Chapter 4. Wild Euthanasia and Nazi Eugenic Cinema



Conclusion



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