A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. "The Weimar Republic Sourcebook" represents the most comprehensive ...
West German film-makers have tried repeatedly over the past half-century to come to terms with Germany's stigmatized history. How can Hitler and the Holocaust, how can the complicity and shame of the average German be narrated and visualized? How can Auschwitz be reconstructed? Anton Kaes argues that a major shift in German attitudes occurred in ...
How does migration change a nation? "Germany in Transit" is the first sourcebook to illuminate the country's transition into a multiethnic society - from the arrival of the first guest workers in the mid-1950s to the most recent reforms in immigration and citizenship law. The book charts the highly contentious debates about migrant labor, human ...
This text reconnects "M" to its significance as an event in 1931 Germany, recapturing the film's extraordinary social and symbolic energy. Interweaving close reading with cultural history, Anton Kaes reconstitutes "M" as a modernist artwork. He also analyzes Joseph Losey's 1951 film noir remake.
A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. "The Weimar Republic Sourcebook" represents the most comprehensive ...
"Shell Shock Cinema" explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the trauma of Germany's humiliating defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", "Nosferatu", "The Nibelungen", and "Metropolis", even though they do not ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2007-04-03
ISBN-13:9780520248946ISBN:0520248945
Description: Good. Good clean condition. Cover/book edges have some wear. Some pages have marks, underlining or highlighting. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! read more
Publisher: [München], Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag; Tübingen: Niemeyer
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9783484190474ISBN:3484190477
Description: 8°. VII, 200 Seiten. Sehr gut erhalten. KEINE Anstreichungen. Kein Besitzvermerk. Originalausgabe 1978. dtv; 4307 Deutsche Texte; [48] read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berlin University Press
Date Published: 2004
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. B002L6ZO98. One slightly crimped corner, otherwise text clean and solid; German translation of the book published by Harvard University Press: A New History of German Literature; 1219 pages. read more
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