Madchen in Uniform - Barbara Mennel (BFI Film Classics)

'Mädchen in Uniform' by Barbara Mennel (BFI Film Classics Paperback)

Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Barbara Mennel's compelling study firmly establishes Mädchen in the Weimar cinema canon. Mennel contextualises the film in 1920s theories of sexuality and the conventions of modernist cinema. She contrasts its international success to the extensive censorship battles that surrounded it.