The Weimar period in Germany was a time of radical change, when the traditions and social hierarchies of Imperial Germany crumbled, and a young, deeply conflicted republic emerged. Modernity brought changes that reached deep into the most personal aspects of life, including a loosening of gender roles that opened up new freedoms and opportunities to women. The screen vamps, gar?onnes, and New Women in this movie-hungry society came to embody the new image of womanhood: sexually liberated, independent, and-at least to some-deeply threatening. In "Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the...