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Spectacle (German Visual Culture #2)

Spectacle (German Visual Culture #2)

Deborah Ascher Barnstone (Other), Thomas O. Haakenson (Other), Jennifer Creech (Editor)
$155.16
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Publication Date: August 21st, 2015
Publisher:
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
ISBN:
9783034318037
Pages:
306
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Description

How does the visual nature of spectacle destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? This interdisciplinary volume explores the concept of spectacle in the German context, including critical interventions into exhibitions, architecture, cinema and photography from the Baroque to the contemporary.

About the Author

Jennifer L. Creech is Associate Professor of German at the University of Rochester. She has published on German, Austrian and postunification cinema, is the author of Mothers, Comrades and Outcasts: East German Women's Films 1965 and Beyond and has published essays in the Women in German Yearbook and Seminar. Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Provost at California College of the Arts (San Francisco / Oakland). He is co-editor of the series German Visual Culture and co-coordinator of the Visual Culture Network of the German Studies Association in the United States. He has published widely, including essays in New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism and Memorialization in Germany since 1945.

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