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Becoming a Nazi Town
Local cultural activities played a key role in altering Germany’s political landscape between the world wars
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...
'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Germany
A legal and cultural history of censorship, youth protection, and national identity in early twentieth-century Germany.
Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936
New essays examining the differences and commonalities between late Weimar-era and early Nazi-era German cinema against a backdrop of the crises of that time.
War in Film
The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented is related to existent semiotics, and the respective sign systems determine the image of heroic actions and violence on the screen. The present volume provides a deeper insight into the forces at play when war films are presented on the big screen and intends to show why and how violent conflicts often have an afterlife as visual media as well.
Performative Figures of Queer Masculinity
This is a German history of cinema and film from the 1890s to 1945 with a focus on queer masculinity. Using media studies approaches, the study shows how film as a new medium is constituted through performative re-enactments of spectacular elements from the entertainment and knowledge cultures of the 19th century. In it, bodies, desires and identities are constantly remodelled through the formation of difference. Therefore, male queerness here does not mean the representation of male homosexuality. Rather, it is the dynamic result of complex medial processes, affects and (self-)knowledge on and off the screen. Building on Eve K. Sedgwick's queer-feminist concept of queer performativity, the ...
Mediale Mobilmachung
Mediale Mobilmachung meint weit mehr als die filmische Veranschaulichung einer ideologischen Botschaft. Sie verlangt, "zu elementaren Konfliktstellungen zu kommen, die mit den natürlichen Sinnen, den Augen und Ohren, ohne komplizierte Denkprozesse aufgenommen, das heißt unmittelbar erlebt werden können" (J. Goebbels 14./15.2.1941). Wir würden dies heute - mit unserem Medien-Schreckensmann Jean Baudrillard - die mediale "Liquidierung aller Referentiale" nennen. Die kritische Diskussion der These, dass im Dritten Reich ein vergleichbares Unternehmen vorerprobt wurde, kann nur dann gelingen, wenn beachtet wird, dass die Realität des Films im Dritten Reich neben dem Spielfilm den Dokumentarfilm, die Wochenschau, den Kulturfilm, den Unterrichtsfilm, den Werbefilm sowie den Trickfilm einschloss. Insofern kommt es den Beiträgern des Bandes darauf an, die hier jeweils verfolgten Strategien einer filmischen Realitätstransformation zu erhellen, um daraus dann die Konturen einer das Zusammenwirken dieser Filmangebote regulierenden Programmästhetik abzuleiten.
Von und über König Friedrich II. von Preußen PHILOSOPHIE UND REGENTENPFLICHTEN
Das vorliegende Buch ist Teil eines vierbändigen Werks. Der erste Teil erscheint vorerst nur als E-Book. Eine papierene Ausgabe aller Bände wird beabsichtigt. Es handelt sich bei diesem Buch im Wesentlichen um eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Äußerungen König Friedrichs II. und anderer Autoren des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts.
A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler
Nazis, fascists and völkisch conservatives in different European countries not only cooperated internationally in the fields of culture, science, economy, and persecution of Jews, but also developed ideas for a racist and ethno-nationalist Europe under Hitler. The present volume attempts to combine an analysis of Nazi Germany’s transnational relations with an evaluation of the discourse that accompanied these relations.
Made in Europe
This edited collection studies the production and dissemination of popular music, tourism, cinema, fashion, broadcasting programmes, advertising and coffee in Western Europe in the twentieth century. Focussing on the supply side of popular culture, it addresses a field of study that is neglected in European historiography. Moreover, it provides a theoretical and methodological discussion that takes into account the inherent dynamics of content production and the role of cultural intermediaries in the change of cultural repertoires. Taking key developments in the culture industries in the USA as a point of reference, the book highlights particularities of cultural production in Europe. It identifies a greater autonomy of creatives, stronger influence of critics and a lesser concern with audience research as three characteristics of the production regime in Western Europe. It takes into view the transfer of popular culture across the Atlantic and between European countries and offers new insights into research on the cultural Americanisation of Europe. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.
