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A Foreign Affair
With six Academy Awards, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish emigre from Central Europe? This work projects Wilder as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture.
Weimar Cinema and After
German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst, which having apparently announced the horrors of fascism, while testifying to the traumas of a defeated nation, still casts a long shadow over cinema in Germany, leaving film history and political history permanently intertwined. Weimar Cinema and After offers a fresh perspective on t...
When Heimat Meets Hollywood
Contemporary connections between German directors and Hollywood and their implications for German, American, and transnational film.The film histories of Germany and the United States have long been seen as intertwined, but scholarship has focused on émigré works of the 1930s and 1940s, on links between Weimar film and American film noir, and on the conflictedrelationship between directors of the New German Cinema and Hollywood. Recently, German film studies has begun reexamining the interconnection of the two film cultures and focusing on the internationalism of German cinema, but little research has been done on contemporary German directors'' involvement in American cinema, a gap in sch...
A Companion to Film Noir
An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels. Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-media influences Features chapters exploring the wider ‘noir mediascape’ of television, graphic novels and radio Reflects the historical and geographical reach of film noir, from the 1920s to the present and in a variety of national cinemas Includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars
Transnational Horror Across Visual Media
This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts. Perhaps more than any other genre, horror is characterized by its ability to be simultaneously aware of the local while able to permeate national boundaries, to function on both regional and international registers. The essays here explore political models and allegories, questions of cult or subcultural media and their distribution practices, the relationship between regional or cultural networks, and the legibility of international horror iconography across distinct media. The book underscores how a discussion of contemporary international horror is not only about genre but about how genre can inform theories of visual cultures and the increasing permeability of their borders.
Ambiguous Borderlands
The image of the shadow in midtwentiethcentury America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on an extensive framework that ranges from Cold War cultural histories to theorizations of psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Erik Mortenson argues that shadow imagery in 1950s and 1960s American culture not only reflected the anxiety and ambiguity of the times but also offered an imaginative space for artists to challenge the binary rhetoric associated with the Cold War. From comics to movies, Beats to bombs, Ambiguous Borderlands provides a novel understanding of the Cold War cultural context through its analysis of the image of the shadow in midcentury media. Its interdisciplinary approach, ambitious subject matter, and diverse theoretical framing make it essential reading for anyone interested in American literary and popular culture during the midtwentieth century.
Postwall German Cinema
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home and abroad, where they count among the most popular German films of all time. Recently, however, the country’s cinematic take on history has seen a significant new development: the radical style, content, and politics of the New German Cinema. With in-depth analyses of the major trends and films, this book represents a comprehensive assessment of the historical film in today’s Germany. Challenging previous paradigms, it takes account of a postwall cinema that complexly engages with various historiographical forms and, above all, with film history itself.
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Die Botschaft zwischen den Zeilen
Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung, das im Artikel 19 der UNO-Menschenrechtserklärung jeder Person zugesichert wird, erfährt vor allem in diktatorischen Staatsordnungen eine empfindliche Einschränkung. Diese totalitären Systeme versuchen durch das Auferlegen repressiver Zensur sich öffentlicher Diskurse zu bemächtigen und einen freien Gedankenaustausch innerhalb ihrer Gesellschaft zu unterbinden. Die Implementierung solcher kontrollierender Maßnahmen muss aber nicht immer die alleinige Behinderung oder Unterdrückung kreativer Freiheit zur Folge haben, sondern kann auch dazu führen, dass sich neue Ausdrucksformen zur Äußerung nonkonformistischer Gedank...
Österreichbilder
Mediale Welten sind Konstruktionen, die zum einen Auskunft über Perspektiven auf die Welt geben. Zum anderen sind sie kulturelle und historische Speichermedien für Ideologien, Anthropologien sowie Denk- und Handlungslogiken. Mediale Welten geben damit ein implizites kulturelles Selbstverständnis wieder, das eine Kultur von sich oder anderen Kulturen präsentiert. Die Tagung fokussiert aus verschiedensten fachspezifischen Blickwinkeln (literatur- und medienwissenschaftlichen, sprachwissenschaftlichen, fachdidaktischen usw.) und methodischen Positionen heraus auf Konstruktionen, die das Selbst- und Fremdverständnis Österreichs transportieren. Erkennbar werden sollen wesentliche soziale, politische und kulturelle Kräfte, die in einem (möglichst) weiten historischen Rahmen zu reflektieren sind. Es geht um die Entdeckung und Erforschung von offenen und versteckten Zusammenhängen, Entwicklungen, Verbindungslinien im Ästhetischen wie im Gesellschaftlichen.
