| Physical description |
x, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Questions of methodology in visual studies / Nora M. Alter -- 2. The interarts experiment in early German film / Ingeborg Hoesterey -- 3. From dance to film : the cinematic art of Leni Riefenstahl and Dorothy Arzner / Dagmar von Hoff -- 4. The photographic comportment of Bernd and Hilla Becher / Blake Stimson -- 5. Ready, set, made! : Joseph Beuys and the critique of silence / Jan Mieszkowski -- 6. Las Vegas on the spree : the Americanization of the New Berlin / Janet Ward -- 7. Magnus Hirschfeld and the photographic (re)invention of the "third sex" / David James Prickett -- 8. (Un)fashioning identities : Ernst Lubitsch's early comedies of mistaken identity / Valerie Weinstein -- 9. Cigarettes, advertising, and the Weimar Republic's modern woman / Barbara Kosta -- 10. Montage and identity in Brecht and Fassbinder / Patrick Greaney -- 11. Activism, alterity, Alex & Ali : writing Germany's first gay sitcom / Thomas J. D. Armbrecht -- 12. Gender, imperialism, and the encounter with Islam : Ruth Beckermann's film A Fleeting Passage to the Orient / Dagmar C. G. Lorenz -- 13. Cartographic claims : colonial mappings of Poland in German territorial revisionism / Kristin Kopp -- 14. Face/off : Hitler and Weimar political photography / Lutz Koepnick -- 15. "Send in the clowns" : carnivalizing the Heil-Hitler salute in German visual culture / Peter Arnds -- 16. Visual signaling systems in East German political cabaret : the case of Berlin's Distel / Michele Ricci -- 17. Reframing Celan in the paintings of Anselm Kiefer / Eric Kligerman. |
| Other author |
Finney, Gail.
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| Subject |
Arts, German -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0253347181 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0253218330 (paperback: alkaline paper) |
| Standard Number |
9780253218339 |
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