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Strategies of Humor in Post-Unification German Literature, Film, and Other Media
The fourteen chapters in this anthology feature original analyses of contemporary German-language literary texts, films, political cartoons, cabaret, and other types of performance. The artworks display a wide spectrum of humor modes, such as irony, satire, the grotesque, Jewish humor, and slapstick, as responses to unification with the accompanying euphoria, but also alienation and dislocation. Kerstin Hensel’s Lärchenau, Christoph Hein’s Landnahme, and vignette collections by Jakob Hein (Antrag auf ständige Ausreise und andere Mythen der DDR) and Wladimir Kaminer (Es gab keinen Sex im Sozialismus) are interpreted as examples of the grotesque. The popular films Lola rennt, Sonnenallee...
Hitler als Witzfigur - Komödiantische Darstellungen von Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Film
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Nationalsozialismus, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Note: 1,7, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Nur nebenbei sei angemerkt, daß es fürs Denken gar keinen besseren Start gibt als das Lachen. Und insbesondere bietet die Erschütterung des Zwerchfells dem Gedanken gewöhnlich bessere Chancen dar als die der Seele.“ Walter Benjamin, 19341 Was kann es befreienderes geben als ein Lachen, das uns auch noch einen gedanklichen Prozess erleichtert? Wo doch kaum ein Mensch von sich behaupten würde, nicht gerne zu lachen. Doch ist uns auch bewusst, dass ein Witz nicht jeder Thematik angemessen ers...
German Cinema
Edited book offering a survey of recent German cinema >
As long as the Roses still bloom. The track record of the German Heimatfilm
Master's Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject History of Germany - Modern History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (School of History, Classics and Archaeology), course: MLitt History, language: English, abstract: Several historians and film scholars have dealt with the German Heimatfilm. They mainly concentrated on the films' reception in the 1950s, when they served as a form of distraction from reality. Large audience figures were attracted to go to the movies to see peaceful villages, mountains, lakes or woods. The reasons for the genre's success were revealed by several researchers. But, when switching on television today, it becomes clear that the phenomenon of Heimat is still of ...
Projected Cities
The books that comprise the Locations series address the links between film and society. In Cinema and Urban Space Stephen Barber explores the use of urban images in film from early to contemporary cinema.
The Ghosts of Berlin
In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Ladd surveys the urban landscape, excavating its ruins, contemplating its buildings and memorials, and carefully deconstructing the public debates and political controversies emerging from its past. "Written in a clear and elegant style, The Ghosts of Berlin is not just another colorless architectural history of the German capital. . . . Mr. Ladd's book is a superb guide to this process of urban self-definition, both past and present."—Katharina Thote, Wall Street Journal "If a book can have the power to change a public debate, t...
The Necessary Journey
"What does a workplace utopia look like to you?" This is the question Dr. Ella F. Washington asks company leaders, and often she hears about an ideal vision of an organization that values diversity and inclusion and wants employees to bring their whole selves to work. But how can you get there? Organizations have largely missed the mark when it comes to creating environments where all employees thrive in an equal and equitable way, because they treat diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a program that gets done rather than the necessary and difficult journey it is. A truly inclusive workplace requires invention and reinvention, mistakes and humility, adaptation to a changing world, cons...
Butterflies & Barbarians
The Swiss missionaries played a primary role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasises how these European intellectuals, brought to the deep rural areas of southern Africa by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the continent. Central to this group was Junod who became a pioneering collector in the fields of entomology and botany. He would later examine African society with the methodology, theories and confidence of the natural sciences. On the way he came to depend on the skills of African observers and collectors. Out of this work emerged, in three stages between 1898 and 1927, an influential cla...
Modernism
The period 1890-1930 produced literature that still feels contemporary and few movements can boast such an international wealth of innovative writers - Apollinaire, Brecht, Joyce, Kafka, Strindberg, Woolf and Yeats among many others. This now classic survey explores the ideas, the groupings and the social tensions that shaped this transformation, as well as the literature itself, and identifies the elements of shock and crisis central to Modernist style. Appropriately, the contributors display a stimulating variety of critical approaches and methods resulting in some of the most exciting and scholarly criticism yet written on Modernism.
Work, Culture, and Identity
Work, Culture, and Identity offers a compelling narrative of the day-to-day life of migrant laborers in Mozambique and South Africa.
