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Biographical note
Jon Hughes a Reader in German and Cultural Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and the author of Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany, (2017) and Facing Modernity: Fragmentation, Culture and Identity in Joseph Roth’s Writing of the 1920s (2006).Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. ‘Just like that. Without a studio. Without money’: Making People on Sunday
2. ‘A film without actors’? Reality and Fiction in People on Sunday
3. Time and Space in People on Sunday
4. Gender and Sexuality in People on Sunday
5. ‘Say Cheese!’ Photography and the Human Face in People on Sunday
6. ‘This little film is simply perfect’: The Critical Reception and Legacies of People on Sunday
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