PABST’S FILM "DIARY OF A LOST GIRL" AS THE FINAL STAGE OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE IMAGE OF THE "NEW WOMAN" IN THE GERMAN CINEMA OF THE 1920S
The article is dedicated to the problem of the evolution of the image of the “new woman” in the German cinema of the 1920s. Especially it concentrates on its final stage, manifested in the film “Diary of a Lost Girl” by G. V. Pabst (1929). German “new woman” was repeatedly in the center of German directors’ attention in that period. A protagonist from the literary works of German writer F. Wedekind (then in the Pabst’s film “Pandora's Box” (1928)), Lulu is the conceptual visualization of that image. The author of the article asserts that the image of the chthonic, sensual, and therefore immoral woman was transformed into a feminist. Developing Lulu’s ideas the heroine of the “Diary of a Lost Girl” embodies a powerful stream of feminine vital energy that can change the existing social order and opposed hypocrisy of the representatives of the patriarchal society.