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Susan Bach was born in 1902 in Berlin, where she studied crystallography before escaping to London in the wake of Nazism. These essays reflect on her life and work and show how the process of connecting and finding meaning continues and advances whetherthrough pictures, objects, dreams or other images and myths.
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Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing as they pertain to film and situates them in a theoretical framework. The figure of the human body takes center stage in Peucker's innovative study, for it is through this figure that the conjunction of literary and painterly discourses persistently articulates itself. It is through the human body, too, that film's consciousness of itself as a hybr...
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