Visual culture in twentieth-century Germany : text as spectacle

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Visual culture in twentieth-century Germany : text as spectacle

edited by Gail Finney

Indiana University Press, c2006

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780253218339

Description

If the 21st century is the digital age, the 20th century can be characterized as the visual age-the era in which visual activity achieved unprecedented prominence. As this volume richly demonstrates, the visual mode was nowhere more dynamic and powerful during the 1900s than in Germany. Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany explores a wide spectrum of visual media in 20th-century Germany in their critical and social contexts. Contributors examine film, photography, cabaret performance, advertising, architecture, painting, dance, television, and cartography, investigating the ways in which these visual media were inflected by aesthetic innovation, changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality, and the political upheavals of the day. This volume sheds new light on German cultural history during the 1900s and represents a major contribution to the field of visual culture studies.

Table of Contents

Contents Gail Finney, University of California, Davis. "Introduction" Part I. Questions of Methodology and Aesthetics Ch. 1. Questions of Methodology in Visual Studies, Nora M. Alter Ch. 2. The Interarts Experiment in Early German Film, Ingeborg Hoesterey Ch. 3. From Dance to Film: The Cinematic Art of Leni Riefenstahl and Dorothy Arzner, Dagmar von Hoff Ch. 4. The Photographic Comportment of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Blake Stimson Ch. 5. Ready, Set, Made! Joseph Beuys and the Critique of Silence, Jan Mieszkowski Ch. 6. Las Vegas on the Spree: The Americanization of the New Berlin, Janet Ward Part II. Gender And Sexuality Ch. 7. Magnus Hirschfeld and the Photographic (Re)Invention of the 'Third Sex,' David James Prickett Ch. 8. (Un)Fashioning Identities: Ernst Lubitsch's Early Comedies of Mistaken Identity, Valerie Weinstein Ch. 9. Cigarettes, Advertising, and the Weimar Republic's Modern Woman, Barbara Kosta Ch. 10. Brecht, Fassbinder, and Queer Montage, Patrick Greaney Ch. 11. Activism, Alterity, Alex & Ali: Writing Germany's First Gay Sitcom, Thomas J. D. Armbrecht Ch. 12. Gender, Imperialism, and the Encounter with Islam: Ruth Beckermann's Film A Fleeting Passage to the Orient, Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Part III. Political Dimensions Ch. 13. Cartographic Claims: Colonial Mappings of Poland in German Territorial Revisionism, Kristin Kopp Ch. 14. Face/Off: Hitler and Weimar Political Photography, Lutz KoepnickCh. 15. 'Send in the Clowns': Carnivalizing the Heil-Hitler Salute in German Visual Culture, Peter Arnds Ch. 16. Visual Signaling Systems in East German Political Cabaret: The Case of Berlin's Distel, Michele Ricci Ch. 17. Reframing Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer, Eric Kligerman Index Contributors
Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780253347183

Description

If the 21st century is the digital age, the 20th century can be characterized as the visual age - the era in which visual activity achieved unprecedented prominence. As this volume richly demonstrates, the visual mode was nowhere more dynamic and powerful during the 1900s than in Germany. "Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany" explores a wide spectrum of visual media in 20th-century Germany in their critical and social contexts. Contributors examine film, photography, cabaret performance, advertising, architecture, painting, dance, television, and cartography, investigating the ways in which these visual media were inflected by aesthetic innovation, changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality, and the political upheavals of the day. This volume sheds new light on German cultural history during the 1900s and represents a major contribution to the field of visual culture studies.

Table of Contents

  • Gail Finney, University of California, Davis. "Introduction"Part I. Questions of Methodology and AestheticsCh. 1. Questions of Methodology in Visual Studies, Nora M. Alter
  • Ch. 2. The Interarts Experiment in Early German Film, Ingeborg Hoesterey
  • Ch. 3. From Dance to Film: The Cinematic Art of Leni Riefenstahl and Dorothy Arzner, Dagmar von Hoff
  • Ch. 4. The Photographic Comportment of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Blake Stimson
  • Ch. 5. Ready, Set, Made! Joseph Beuys and the Critique of Silence, Jan Mieszkowski
  • Ch. 6. Las Vegas on the Spree: The Americanization of the New Berlin, Janet WardPart II. Gender And SexualityCh. 7. Magnus Hirschfeld and the Photographic (Re)Invention of the 'Third Sex,' David James Prickett
  • Ch. 8. (Un)Fashioning Identities: Ernst Lubitsch's Early Comedies of Mistaken Identity, Valerie Weinstein
  • Ch. 9. Cigarettes, Advertising, and the Weimar Republic's Modern Woman, Barbara Kosta
  • Ch. 10. Brecht, Fassbinder, and Queer Montage, Patrick Greaney
  • Ch. 11. Activism, Alterity, Alex & Ali: Writing Germany's First Gay Sitcom, Thomas J. D. Armbrecht
  • Ch. 12. Gender, Imperialism, and the Encounter with Islam: Ruth Beckermann's Film A Fleeting Passage to the Orient, Dagmar C. G. LorenzPart III. Political DimensionsCh. 13. Cartographic Claims: Colonial Mappings of Poland in German Territorial Revisionism, Kristin Kopp
  • Ch. 14. Face/Off: Hitler and Weimar Political Photography, Lutz Koepnick
  • Ch. 15. 'Send in the Clowns': Carnivalizing the Heil-Hitler Salute in German Visual Culture, Peter Arnds
  • Ch. 16. Visual Signaling Systems in East German Political Cabaret: The Case of Berlin's Distel, Michele Ricci
  • Ch. 17. Reframing Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer, Eric Kligerman

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