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Hollywood Remaking
"From the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing textual production. Hollywood Remaking critically examines the persistent economic and cultural relevance of film remakes, series, sequels, crossovers, spin-offs, and prequels that emerge from the large-scale system of remaking actively shape how the film industry, cinema, and audiences imagine themselves as these movies constantly negotiate past and present, stability and change through a serial dynamic of repetition and variation. The book develops a theory of Hollywood remaking as an inherently dynamic practice situated between the film industry's economic logic and the cultural imaginary and analyzes how remaking has developed as a business practice in the United States, how it has been imagined, discursively constructed, and defined by networked stakeholders from production and reception contexts, how it has shaped cinematic aesthetics and cultural debates, and how it has fostered film-historical knowledge, promoted feelings of generational belonging among audiences, and become deeply enmeshed with constructions of the self"--
Reading Matters
The present book is a special gift for a special colleague and friend. Defined as an “Unfestschrift,” it gives colleagues, students, and friends of Regina Bendix an opportunity to express their esteem for Regina’s inspiration, cooperation, leadership, and friendship in an adequate and lasting manner. The title of the present book, Reading Matters, is as close as possible to an English equivalent of the beautiful German double entendre Erlesenes (meaning both “something read/a reading” and “something exquisite”). Presenting “matters for reading,” the Unfestschrift unites short contributions about “readings” that “mattered” in some way or another for the contributors,...
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies
Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline and a detailed outline of new directions in the field. It consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. The Companion covers all of the main theoretical approaches as well as key literary genres, with case studies covering a range of different geographical, cultural, and historical settings. The final chapters provide a window into new ...
Resistance
All around the world and throughout history, resistance has played an important role - and it still does. Some strive to raise it to cause change. Some dare not to speak of it. Some try to smother it to keep a status quo. The contributions to this volume explore phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments. In so doing, they not only contribute to shaping a comparative view on subjects, representations, and contexts of resistance, but also open up a theoretical dialogue on terms and concepts of resistance both in and across different disciplines. With contributions by Micha Brumlik, Peter McLaren, and others.
Fantasy Aesthetics
Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons and mages follow mythical archetypes and develop pictorial aesthetics of fantasy, completed by gothic fonts, maps and page layout that refer to medieval manuscripts and chronicles. The contributors to this volume explore the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.
Pädagogik im Verborgenen
Der Sammelband verfolgt das Ziel, gegenwärtige ästhetische Praktiken und die damit verbundenen konkreten ästhetischen Objekte und theoretischen Diskurse auf ihre implizite pädagogische Struktur hin zu befragen. Mittels interpretatorischer Bemühungen wird der Versuch unternommen zu überprüfen, inwiefern sich durch pädagogisch-theoretische Zugänge ein Intentionscharakter der jeweils zu betrachtenden Forschungsgegenstände sichtbar machen lässt. Im Verborgenen, so die These des Bandes, spielen sich solche Praktiken, Theorien und Objekte deshalb ab, da sie mittels verschiedener Strategien und hauptsächlich unter der Verwendung der Chiffre des Ästhetischen den Schein des Nicht-Intentionalen, des nicht gezielten Einwirkens auf adressierte Personen konstruieren.
Militarizing Outer Space
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.
Interfaces franco-allemandes dans la culture populaire et les médias. Deutsch-französische Schnittstellen in Populärkultur und Medien
Massenmedien greifen als „nicht intentionale Mittler“ häufig populäre Formen von Kultur auf und erschließen so neue Kontexte und Räume für den deutsch-französischen Wissens- und Kulturtransfer. Die Beiträge in diesem Band beleuchten diese interkulturellen Transfer- und Fremdwahrnehmungsprozesse in Populärkultur und Medien.
Modern Germany
Modern Germany explores life, society, and history in this comprehensive thematic encyclopedia, spanning such topics as geography, pop culture, the media, and gender. Germany and its capital, Berlin, were the fulcrum of geopolitics in the twentieth century. After the Second World War, Germany was a divided nation. Many German citizens were born and educated and continued to work in eastern Germany (the former German Democratic Republic). This title in the Understanding Modern Nations series seeks to explain contemporary life and traditional culture through thematic encyclopedic entries. Themes in the book cover geography; history; politics and government; economy; religion and thought; socia...
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Kultur ist nicht nur seit nunmehr vier Jahrzehnten die zentrale Kategorie der Volkskunde und ihrer disziplinären Fortentwicklungen in Deutschland und darüber hinaus, Kultur ist - ungeachtet aller Problematik - auch eine der wirkmächtigsten Ordnungsvorstellungen der Moderne. Als Konzept der Selbstauslegung hat Kultur zu keiner Zeit eine ähnliche Reichweite und Anziehungskraft besessen wie heute, zugleich beschreibt sie ein Feld wachsender Ökonomien, ist weltweit Gegenstand politischen Handelns und nicht zuletzt Schlüsselbegriff und Fluchtpunkt einer Reihe von sich zusehends als Kulturwissenschaften verstehenden Fächern. Seit dem von Tübingen ausgehenden 'Abschied vom Volksleben' nimmt...
