PARAGRAPH 175

I found comparing PARAGRAPH 175 to the lecture kind of difficult to do. Paragraph 175 seeks to dismiss the idea of bring queer. It puts a hault to any idea of sexual reform for gay men. The law goes so far as to imprison or take away the civil rights of any man caught before these sexual acts. But the the lecture during the depression era we see a huge leap in film for reform. This can be seen in actress Marlene Dietrich who played a free spirited non housewife material woman in the Blue Angle. She was even an open bi sexual during this time. She was seeking reform and even left Germany to support American troops. It sort of seems like a supporting direction for reform for women which can be seen in film but an unsupportive role for gay men. It seems that was something Germany was not ready for.

CABARET SONG 2: the lavender song

The Lavender Song" (Das Lila Lied)

MY INTERPRETION WILL BE taken from, "Round us all up, send us away
that's what you'd really like to do
But we're too strong, proud, unafraid
in fact we almost pity you
You act from fear, why should that be
What is it that you are frightened of
The way that we dress
The way that we meet
The fact that you cannot destroy our love
We're going to win our rights"

Here we see a song representing the LGBT. This song is an empowerment song. Sort of like an anthem. The queer are saying we aren't afraid of who we are. They are telling society you may not like what we stand for but who cares. The queer community are tired of being treated like an outcast. They are fighting for there rights to be treated like any other straight person. There love isn't as different as any other straight person and they want people to stop them like it is. They are proud of who they are and don't want to hide it. They want there rights and  like the singer says, "We're going to win our rights"

English Translated Lyrics:
What makes them think they have the right to say what God considers vice
What makes them think they have the right to keep us out of Paradise
They make our lives hell here on Earth
poisoning us with guilt and shame
If we resist, prison awaits so our love dares not speak its name
The crime is when love must hide
From now on we'll love with pride
CHORUS:
We're not afraid to be queer and different
if that means hell -- well, hell we'll take the chance
they're all so straight, uptight, upright and rigid
they march in locksep we prefer to dance
We see a world of romance and of pleasure
All they can see is sheer banality
Lavender nights are our greatest treasure
where we can be just who we want to be
Round us all up, send us away
that's what you'd really like to do
But we're too strong, proud, unafraid
in fact we almost pity you
You act from fear, why should that be
What is it that you are frightened of
The way that we dress
The way that we meet
The fact that you cannot destroy our love
We're going to win our rights
to lavender days and nights


German Lyrics:
Was will man nur? Ist das Kultur,
da jeder Mensch verpönt ist,
der klug und gut, jedoch mit Blut
von eigner Art durchströmt ist,
da grade die Kategorie
vor dem Gesetz verbannt ist,
die im Gefühl bei Lust und Spiel
und in der Art verwandt ist?
Und dennoch sind die meisten stolz,
da sie von anderm Holz!
Wir sind nun einmal anders, als die andern,
die nur im Gleichschritt der Moral geliebt,
neugerig erst durch tausend Wunder wandern,
und für die ’s doch nur das Banale gibt.
Wir aber wissen nicht, wie das Gefühl ist,
denn wir sind alle andrer Welten Kind;
wir lieben nur die lila Nacht, die schwül ist,
weil wir ja anders als die andern sind.
Wozu die Qual, uns die
Moral der andern aufzudrängen?
Wir, hört geshwind, sind wie wir sind,
selbst wollte man uns hängt,
den müte man beweinen,
doch bald gebt acht, es wird über Nacht
auch unsre Sonne scheinen.
Dann haben wir das gleiche Recht erstritten,
wir leiden nicht meht, sondern sind gelitten.
Wir sind nun einmal anders, usw.

CABARET SONG 1: Friedrich Hollaender, “Raus mit den Männern” (1926)

Friedrich Hollaender, “Raus mit den Männern” (1926). Performed and recorded by Ute Lemper, Berlin Cabaret Songs  (Decca 1996)

MY ANALYZE AND INTERPRETATION: " The men get their pick of professions they're policemen or scholars or clerks
They get rich and acquire possessions like we wives who keep house for these jerks
They're ruining the country while we mop up the floor
They're flushing this whole nation down the drain
Sisters stand together, let's show these men the door
before they drive us totally insane"

Here in the chorus the singer is saying to us this is a new time for woman. A new era to make way for a woman no longer wanting to be that housewife. They do not like how men are running the country and they want change. They A&R letting us know they have found their voice and are ready to stand together for a new feminist movement. They are no longer settling for a position as a housewife and want to be professional women. During this time in history, women were finding there freedom of expression and were challenging the masses of men to accept the new objectives women of Germany wanted.

English Lyrics:
The battle for emancipation's been raging since history began
Yes, feminists of every nation want to chuck off the chains made by man
Hula girls and housemaids and wives in Maribou
hear all our voices thunder in protest
Anything that men do women can do too
and more that that we women do it best
CHORUS:  Chuck all the men out of the Reichstag
and chuck all the men out of the courthouse
Men are the problem with humanity
they're blinded by their vanity
Women have passively embraced them
when we could have easily outpaced them
Yes we should have long ago replaced them
or better yet erased them
If we haven't made our feelings clear
we women have had it up to here
As babies men all howl and bluster they cry through the night and the day
perfecting the techniques they'll muster for the times when they don't get their way
Nursie holds the monster and feeds him from her breast
and baby is contented for a bit
But when he sees his nurse is trying to get some rest
the little man decides to have a fit
CHORUS
The men get their pick of professions they're policemen or scholars or clerks
They get rich and acquire possessions like we wives who keep house for these jerks
They're ruining the country while we mop up the floor
They're flushing this whole nation down the drain
Sisters stand together, let's show these men the door
before they drive us totally insane
CHORUS


GERMAN TRANSLATION
Raus mit den Männern!
(für Claire Waldoff)
Es geht durch die ganze Historie
ein Ruf nach Emanzipation
vom Menschen bis zur Infusorie
überall will das Weib auf den Thron.
Vin Hawai-Neger bis zur Berliner Range
braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall daher:
Was die Männer können, können wir schon lange
und vielleicht ’ne ganze Ecke mehr.
Raus mit den Männern aus dem Reichstag,
und raus mit den Männern aus dem Landtag,
und raus mit den Männern aus dem Herrenhaus,
wir machen draus ein Frauenhaus!
Raus mit den Männern aud dem Dasein,
und raus mit den Männern aus dem Hiersein,
und raus mit den Männern aus dem Dortsein,
sie müten schon längst fort sein.
Ja: raus mit den Männern aus dem Bau,
und rein in die Dinger mit der Frau!
Es liegn in der Wiege und brüllen
die zukünft’gen Männer ganz klein.
Die Amme, die Meistrin im Stillen,
flöt die Kraft ihnen schluckweise ein.

The BLUE ANGEL

The Blue Angel represents an important time German expressionism. Many films of the Expressionist era dealt with insanity, madness, and betrayal. In the film, a turning point for me was when Lola sort of declines Rath'S marriage pros pal.  Lola, a wild, free loving woman backs off the idea of marriage. I found that scene interesting because it marks a defining point I'm women value during this new point in time. We see a change in a young women's value system.  We also see constant dark shadows and lighting which is an excellent example of expressionist films. Lola also marks a woman not afraid of her public sexually. She is performing at the cabaret and is not embarrassed about it as oppose to Rath who is full of jealousy. We see here Lola represents the "new woman", a woman not afraid of her sexual,y and her body,  who loves that attention and is ready for the idea of marriage.

The Cabinet of Dr. Cagliari

Existential Nihilism is the belief that life and human beings serve no real purpose and the life we live has no sort of intrunsic meaning or value. The cabinet of Dr. Caligari the specific scene that caught my attention was when Ceasare creeps into Janes bedroom to kill her, but instead he becomes to engulfed in her beauty that he decides to abduct her. Here is where the symbolism comes into play. Throughout the movie, Cesar plays a somnambulist who we assume is going around killing people. I think he is a representation of existential nihilism. Now we can see this displayed when we assume Cesar is simply taking lives of husband Alan and almost the life of Jane showing the viewer that life to Cesar has no intrinsic meaning. Even when he is laying in the box all day it is as if he serves no real purpose, again showing us human life has no real purpose.

Frankfurt School

FRANKFURT SCHOOL

THE theorist I choose was Friedrich Pollock.  And I quote, " So far I go with the Socialist as to think it a pretty general rule that where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands", taken from Pollock. Pollock was a German scientist and Philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist theory. Pollack was educated in finance 1911 to 1915. During this time he met Max Horkheimer, with whom he became a lifelong friend. He then studied economy, sociology and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, where he wrote his thesis on Marx's Labor theory of value and received his doctorate in 1923. The Institute for Social Research was founded in 1924 by Pollock and fellow Marxist Felix Weil, who funded the group. In 1927/1928 Pollock traveled to the Soviet Union in honor of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. His research there led to his treatise: Attempts at Planned Economy in the Soviet Union 1917-1927. Thereafter he took a post as lecturer at the University of Frankfurt and he replaced the ill Carl Grünberg as Director of the institute from 1928-1930. In 1950, returned to Frankfurt, taking part in the reestablishment of the Institute, again taking the role of director. From 1951 to 1958 he was professor of national economy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt.

How do these concepts fit into my own mass culture? Well I don't think they do because we live in a capitalist society where social class systems exist and where the more money you have means the more power you can extend for yourself. But I do believe as citizens we long for equality especially in the distribution of wealth in our country. I don't think we long for a classless system but we long for a financial gap in spending to be closed. For example, the cost of a education decreases the chances of young people wanting to go to college after high school but increases their chance of joining the military in response to the the cost of college. We see more educated people with families downsizing and losing there homes because financially they just can't afford it. And we see young people fighting not to be socially  equal but to climb up the economic ladder because they are inspired by Americans like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, great minds who did not go to college and created great money drawing empires. I disagree with these ideas because a classless system isn't as simple as it looks. Most People work hard and do amazing things because they need money to live. We go to college because we want go jobs so we can have the money to provide for yourselves. If we turned to a classless system people would be less motivated to step outside there box.