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Quote, Double Quote
The boundary between ‘high’ culture and ‘popular’ culture is neither hermetic nor stable. A wide-spread mechanism of a reception strongly influenced by structuralism and post-modernism has led to the amplification and acceleration of cultural production between these two poles. Relying on a decidedly theoretical approach, this volume offers a broad perspective transgressing linguistic, cultural, temporal, and media borders. Reflections and perspectives on the relationship between ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture are the subject of the thirteen articles collected here. Side by side with theoretical approaches, case studies covering classical and Heavy Metal music, TV series and pornographic films, zombies and ‘Creature Features’, philosophically infused comics and popular lexicography, professional wrestling and hypertext literature pave the way to a contemporary aesthetics.
Transnational Television History
Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of national identity. But the breaking of the quasi-monopoly of public service broadcasters all over Europe in the 1980s has changed the television landscape, and cross-border television channels - with the help of satellite and the Internet - have catapulted the relatively closed television nations into the universe of globalized media channels. At least, this is the picture painted by the popular meta-nar...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Different Drummers
For the architects of the third reich, jazz was an especially threatening form of expression, because of its essence: spontaneity, improvisation and individuality. Jazz survived persecution and became a powerful symbol of political disobedience and resistance in wartime Germany.
"Unser Hitler"
Wie erscheint Hitler und dessen Mythos in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945? Marcel Atze nimmt sich erstmals dieser Frage an. Der Titel, ein Goebbels-Zitat, provoziert. Doch er führt ins Zentrum einer Untersuchung mit der Fragestellung, wie der von der NS-Propaganda ins Werk gesetzte Hitler-Mythos in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945 rezipiert wird. Marcel Atze konnte ein umfangreiches Textcorpus recherchieren, in dem Hitler als Figur auftritt. Vor dem Hintergrund eines präzisen Bauplans des Mythos erläutert er, welche Strategien die Autoren entwickeln, um das mythische Konstrukt, das noch lange nach Kriegsende Hitlers Anteil an den Verbrechen heruntergespielt hat, zu dest...
