Visual culture in twentieth-century Germany : text as spectacle / edited by Gail Finney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finney, Gail.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, German--20th century.

Arts, German.

Physical Description:

x, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2006]

Summary:

If the twenty-first century is the digital age, the twentieth century can be characterized as the visual age-the era in which visual activity achieves unprecedented prominence. As this volume richly demonstrates, the visual mode is 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 twentieth-century Germany in their critical and social contexts. Contributors examine film, photography, cabaret performance, advertising, architecture, painting, dance, television, and cartography-investigation the ways in which these visual media are 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.

Contents:

Introduction / Gail Finney

Questions of methodology in visual studies / Nora M. Alter

The interarts experiment in early German film / Ingeborg Hoesterey

From dance to film: the cinematic art of Leni Riefenstahl and Dorothy Arzner / Dagmar von Hoff

The photographic comportment of Bernd and Hilla Becher / Blake Stimson

Ready, set, made! Joseph Beuys and the critique of silence / Jan Mieszkowski

Las Vegas on the spree: the Americanization of the new Berlin / Janet Ward

Magnus Hirschfeld and the photographic (re)invention of the "third sex" / David James Prickett

(Un)fashioning identities: Ernst Lubitsch's early comedies of mistaken identity / Valerie Weinstein

Cigarettes, advertising, and the Weimar Republic's modern woman / Barbara Kosta

Montage and identity in Brecht and Fassbinder / Patrick Greaney

Activism, alterity, Alex & Ali: writing Germany's first gay sitcom / Thomas J.D. Armbrecht

Gender, imperialism, and the encounter with Islam: Ruth Beckermann's film A fleeting passage to the Orient / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz

Cartographic claims: colonial mappings of Poland in German territorial revisionism / Kristin Kopp

Face/off: Hitler and Weimar political photography / Lutz Koepnick

"Send in the clowns": carnivalizing the heil-Hitler salute in German visual culture / Peter Arnds

Visual signaling systems in East German political cabaret: the case of Berlin's distel / Michele Ricci

Reframing Celan in the paintings of Anselm Kiefer / Eric Kligerman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253347181

0253218330

OCLC:

61757995

Publisher Number:

9780253218339