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  • All the Rage

    Elfriede Jelinek’s Aesthetics of Passionate Subversion

    Series Libro 3 - Studies in Central European Culture
    All the Rage introduces Jelinek’s work and its critical relevance for understanding contemporary western society while gaining insight into the vibrancy of her aesthetics. Jelinek’s experimental reconceptualization of theater and literature and her critical interventions into public discourses that support, promote and endure social injustices are central to this volume. Themes of right-wing ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Willing Seduction

    The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture

    de Barbara Kosta ...
    Series Libro 8 - Film Europa
    Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany’s first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich ... Leer más

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  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    de Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Leer más

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  • World Film Locations: Berlin

    Edición de Susan Ingram ...
    One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exurberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. World Film Locations: Berlin offers a broad overview of these varied cinematic representations.Covering an ... Leer más

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  • Weimar Cinema

    An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

    Edición de Noah Isenberg ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Franz Kafka - Biography

    de Chalee Dell ...
    Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka strongly influenced genres such as existentialism. Most of his works, such as "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle), are filled with the themes and archetypes ... Leer más

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  • Rammstein on Fire

    New Perspectives on the Music and Performances

    This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. Topics range from Rammstein's connection with 19th century German literature and their East German heritage to cannibalism and the supernatural. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and ... Leer más

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  • Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany

    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    How party propagandists worked behind the scenes to create unspoken racist messages in the German culture—even in the most lighthearted of movies.Today many Germans look back fondly on 1930s film comedies, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. Here, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent ... Leer más

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  • Shell Shock Cinema

    Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War

    de Anton Kaes ...
    How war trauma haunted the films of Weimar GermanyShell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not ... Leer más

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  • The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema

    Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

    Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that ... Leer más

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  • The Use and Abuse of Cinema

    German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced close-ups from a nation's production of fantasies and spectacles, traversing the different ways in ... Leer más

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  • German National Cinema

    de Sabine Hake ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form.The book traces the central role of cinema in the nation’s ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD