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Film, a Modern Art
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Pretty
Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional ideas of art, but its opposition to the decorative represents a long-standing Western aesthetic bias against feminine cosmetics, Oriental effeminacy, and primitive ornament. Inheriting this patriarchal, colonial perspective--which treats decorative style as foreign or sexually perverse--filmmakers, critics, and theorists have often denigrated colorful, picturesque, and richly patterned visions in cinema. Condemning the exclusion of the "pretty" from masculine film culture, Rosalind Galt reevaluates r...
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:
Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes – especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality. How do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, silhouettes, and hypothetical beings? What organizes the figurative values at work in a film? How do cinematic creatures circulate from film to film and image to image? How does film articulate the links between the abstract and figurative? Is it possible to write a history of figurative forms? St...
Defeated Masculinity
The burgeoning field of trauma and cinema is an exciting development within contemporary trauma studies. The author of this book describes the complex relationship between cinema and the trauma of defeat in war. An asymmetric and non-binary comparison of two test cases, post-World War II New German Cinema and post-Vietnam War American cinema, illuminates the indirect and intriguing ways these societies have dealt with the enormous psycho-cultural difficulty of acknowledging their defeat and understanding its manifold meanings. This book draws on psychoanalysis, masculinity studies, and corporeal feminism to explore the bodily experience of defeat. It examines themes and representations of body and sexuality to create a theoretical framework that reveals anew the link between defeated masculinity and nationalism. Building on an original analysis of such varied films as The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, The Tin Drum, and Paris Texas, the author suggests new criteria that highlight the characteristics of post-traumatic cinema.
Beckett's Art of Salvage
Introduction: Miscellaneous Rubbish -- Relics -- Heirlooms -- Props -- Treasure -- Conclusion
Technical and economic potential for photovoltaic systems on buildings
Finite fossil resources require the exploitation of alternative energy sources like photovoltaics. A methodology for the economic potential assessment of photovoltaic installations on buildings including building facades has been developed. It is based on detailed irradiation simulations and a combination of geographically referenced and statistical data and has been applied to the German building stock for 2015. A prognosis for the potential development until 2050 is given.
The Power of Parables
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their audience, which has since been reduced by centuries of preaching and repetition. Not only do parables enhance the perspective on Scripture or the kingdom of heaven, they also change the sensory regime of the audience in perceiving the outer world. The theological differences in their applications appear secondary in view of their powerful rhetoric and suggest a shared genre.
Sozio-emotionaler Kompetenzerwerb in der Grundschule
Die bestmögliche Vernetzung von diversen Förderangeboten für Kinder, die als Symptomträger einer veränderten Gesellschaft und deren haltlosen Strukturen an Verhaltensproblemen leiden, ist die handlungsleitende Intention dieser Forschungsstudie, die Petra von Poten in Reflexion der „heilpädagogischen“ Fachexpertise von Konrad Bundschuh (2002–2013) im diskursiven Vergleich mit der phänomenologisch fundierten Bildungstheorie nach Maria-Anna Bäuml-Roßnagl (1990–2012) vorgelegt hat. Petra von Poten zeigt in ihrer aspektreichen Studie an originären Fallstudien die multifaktoriellen Basisfaktoren des sogenannten „ADHS-Syndroms“ und anderen Verhaltensauffälligkeiten auf und focussiert insbesondere das Schüler-Subjekt. Ihre reiche Erfahrungsexpertise aus der heilpädagogischen Projektarbeit stellt ein Reflexions- und Handlungspotential bereit, das aufklärend wirkt für den Revisionsbedarf zur Effektivität des aktuellen „Inklusions“-Anliegens im deutschen Bildungswesen.
Grasping Emotions
Emotions have increasingly attracted the attention of the sciences and academia. The topic is all the more timely since we have witnessed a global trend towards highly emotionalized discourses across societies and religions. Discourses are less guided by rational arguments and “facts”. Instead, narratives, sometimes manipulative, influence the thoughts and activi-ties of our societies. In this context, the authoritative texts of the monotheistic religions are experiencing a renaissance. Tanach, Bible and Qur’an do not only “emotionalize”, they also offer ancient concepts of emotions which affect the present. This book brings the interdependencies of antiquity and (post)modernity in...
Zweideutige Geschichten
Die Poesie und Prosa Conrad Ferdinand Meyers (1825–1898) ist bei aller formalen Klarheit durch eine nicht behebbare Ambivalenz charakterisiert. Zweideutigkeit kennzeichnet sowohl die beiden Versepen, die den Durchbruch bewirkten, und die bekannten Meisternovellen, als auch die zahlreichen lyrischen Produktionen des Dichters, von dessen Werk sein Schweizer Kollege Gottfried Keller gesagt haben soll: „’s isch alles Brokat.“
