The world turned upside down : changing society, changing gender roles, changing medium in Weimar Germany -- The eyes of the mummy (Die Augen der Mumie Mâ, Ernst Lubitsch, 1918) : from the monster with the "eyes that live" to the passive object of the male gaze -- Uncanny tales (Unheimliche Geschichten, Richard Oswald, 1919) : the many guises of the dangerous woman -- Warning shadows (Schatten : Eine nächtliche Halluzination, Artur Robison, 1923) : transgression, abjection, projection -- The hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände, Robert Wiene, 1924) : war trauma, injury, and the return to a changed world -- A daughter of destiny (Alraune, Henrik Galeen, 1928) and daughter of evil (Alraune, Richard Oswald, 1930) : from dangerous hybrid to self-sacrificing woman
