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The Arts of Democratization
How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering
Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema
This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of representation. How do science studies, literature, and especially film—the medium of the visible—explain and show what is hidden? How can we deal with uncertainties emerging from the ambivalence of dangerous substances? These considerations lead the editors of this volume to the notion of “precarious identities” as a key discursive marker of poisons and related substances. This book is unique in facilitating a multi-faceted conversation between disciplines. It draws on examples from historical cases of poisoning; figurations of uncertainty and blurred boundaries in literature; and cinematic examples, from early cinema and arthouse to documentary and blockbuster. The contributions work with concepts from gender studies, new materialism, post-colonialism, deconstructivism, motif studies, and discourse analysis.
Charting Asian German Film History
"Provides a diachronic view of Asian German film history from early Orientalism to increasing collaboration as well as exploration of difference and alternate forms of national and cultural belonging. From re-creating seedy opium dens and Hindu temples on set to capturing dazzling, on-location sights of Tokyo's neon-lit streets and Berlin's bustling Dong Xuan Center, cinema has provided German-speaking audiences a window into the "exotic" cultures of Asia since the early 1900s. Over time, unilateral German imaginings of Asian cultures and people increasingly gave way to collaboration with Asian countries, on-location shooting, and more variegated portrayals of the diasporic experiences of As...
Traveling Auteurs
What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Traveling Auteurs, author Luca Caminati analyzes the work of influential Italian filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Michelangelo Antonioni as they engaged politically and aesthetically with the global landscapes and politics of the Cold War period. As documentaries, the films considered in this book record specific manifestations of political sensibilities of the twentieth century. As bodies of work, they reveal that the traveling auteurs who made them were symptomatic actors in complex geopolitical networks. As cultural objects ref...
Black (Post-)Cinemas
In this collection of essays, Maja Figge traces the transtemporal bonds between militant African film and Afro-diasporic post-cinema.
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May Ayim Award
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Scham und Schrift
English summary: Given the complaints in newspaper arts and culture supplements about the shamelessness of contemporary literature, the feeling of shame could be considered an outdated phenomenon. However, this study argues that, in the light of the 'retour du recit' in French literature since the 1970s, a strand of literary narrative has formed in which shame has become a magnifying glass through which we can observe contemporary upheavals. This occurs on the one hand when we reconnect with changes within literature, and on the other in connection with historical events, in which the subject finds himself confronted with a specific form of postmodern shame. This includes the legacy of the S...
Die Philosophin
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Das Unbewusste
Die Wissenschaft hat eine heilige Scheu vor dem Unbewussten. Für die wissenschaftliche Rationalität stellt es Bedrohung und Faszination zugleich dar - und aus dieser Ambivalenz speist sich auch die geschlechtliche Codierung des Unbewussten durch die Wissenschaften. Doch so sehr sich die wissenschaftliche Logik durch dieses »Andere« gefährdet sieht - sie ist auf diese Störungen angewiesen. Ähnlich wie das Weibliche als Katalysator für die künstlerische Einbildungskraft fungiert, wirkt das Unbewusste als Motor wissenschaftlicher Wissensproduktion.Den vielfältigen Dynamiken des Unbewussten in der Wissens- und Geschlechterordnung will der Band auf die Spur kommen. Die Beiträge befassen sich sowohl mit der Wissensgeschichte des Unbewussten, den unbewussten Gendercodes der Wissensordnung als auch mit dem visuellen und politischen Unbewussten.
