"A crucial intervention into at least three fields: Weimar cinema studies, feminist and queer theory, and film history. Naomi DeCelles carefully and critically explores Lotte Eisner's best and least known work, situating it in history and reclaiming it for our own time."--Patrice Petro, editor of Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s "With both its balanced approach to relevant biographical details and its masterly critical analysis of Lotte Eisner's writings, this is an excellent, comprehensive, and original study of her contributions to film history and film criticism."--Mila Ganeva, author of Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin: From Nazism to the Cold War