Visual culture in twentieth-century Germany
Subtitle: text as spectacle
By: edited by Gail Finney.
Contributors: Finney, Gail.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780253347183; 9780253218339
Subjects: Arts, German -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Questions of methodology in visual studies / Nora M. Alter; title: The interarts experiment in early German film / Ingeborg Hoesterey; title: From dance to film: the cinematic art of Leni Riefenstahl and Dorothy Arzner / Dagmar von Hoff; title: The photographic comportment of Bernd and Hilla Becher / Blake Stimson; title: Ready, set, made! Joseph Beuys and the critique of silence / Jan Mieszkowski; title: Las Vegas on the spree: the Americanization of the new Berlin / Janet Ward; title: Magnus Hirschfeld and the photographic (re)invention of the "third sex" / David James Prickett; title: (Un)fashioning identities: Ernst Lubitsch's early comedies of mistaken identity / Valerie Weinstein; title: Cigarettes, advertising, and the Weimar Republic's modern woman / Barbara Kosta; title: Montage and identity in Brecht and Fassbinder / Patrick Greaney; title: Activism, alterity, Alex & Ali: writing Germany's first gay sitcom / Thomas J.D. Armbrecht; title: Gender, imperialism, and the encounter with Islam: Ruth Beckermann's film A fleeting passage to the Orient / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz; title: Cartographic claims: colonial mappings of Poland in German territorial revisionism / Kristin Kopp; title: Face/off: Hitler and Weimar political photography / Lutz Koepnick; title: "Send in the clowns": carnivalizing the heil-Hitler salute in German visual culture / Peter Arnds; title: Visual signaling systems in East German political cabaret: the case of Berlin's Distel / Michele Ricci; title: Reframing Celan in the paintings of Anselm Kiefer / Eric Kligerman.