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  • Tatort Germany

    The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction

    by Lynn M. Kutch, Magdalena Waligórska, Sascha Gerhards, Susanne C. Knittel, Todd Herzog, Traci S. O'Brien, Angelika Baier, Anita McChesney, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming0, Faye Stewart1, Heike Henderson2, Jon Sherman3, Kyle Frackman4 ...
    Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Other Germans

    Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

    by Tina Marie Campt ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • German National Cinema

    by 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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Translating Canada

    Edited by Luise von Flotow, Reingard M. Nischik ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at home was an effort to make the resulting works available for audiences elsewhere in the world. Current developments in the study of translation and its influence as cultural transfer have made ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Legal Tender

    Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination

    by John Griffith Urang ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John ... Read more

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  • A Companion to German Cinema

    Edited by Terri Ginsberg, Andrea Mensch ...
    Series Book 4 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to German CinemaA Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While several of these focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film, ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Women in Weimar Fashion

    Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933

    by Mila Ganeva ...
    In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful medium for women's self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rereading East Germany

    The Literature and Film of the GDR

    Edited by Karen Leeder ...
    This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Shape of Spectatorship

    Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany

    by Scott Curtis ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

    The Politics of Memory

    by A. Fuchs ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria

    Edited by Gabriele Mueller, James M. Skidmore ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The “cinema of consensus,” a term coined to describe the popular and commercially oriented filmmaking of the 1990s, has given way to a more heterogeneous and critical cinema culture. Making the greatest artistic impact since the 1970s, contemporary cinema is responding to questions ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • An Emotional State

    The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture

    by Anna M. Parkinson ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an “inability to mourn,” arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested or addressed in a variety of German cultural artifacts, while also identifying previously unacknowledged (and ... Read more

    $22.29 USD