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  • Agency and Author

    German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List

    Edited by Benjamin D. Schaper, Rachel J. Halverson ...
    Series Book 33 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    The image of the solitary author devoting days and nights to writing endless bestselling novels remains an insidious and largely unchallenged myth within German culture. In this exacting examination of the German publishing industry, Agency and Author addresses the financial reality sometimes eclipsed by this idea. Focusing on lesser-known German-language writers and their interactions with the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Entertaining German Culture

    Contemporary Transnational Television and Film

    Edited by Stephan Ehrig, Benjamin Schaper, Elizabeth Ward ...
    Series Book 27 - Film Europa
    Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on German Popular Music

    Edited by Michael Ahlers, Christoph Jacke ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    In this book, native popular musicologists focus on their own popular music cultures from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the first time: from subcultural to mainstream phenomena; from the 1950s to contemporary acts. Starting with an introduction and two chapters on the histories of German popular music and its study, the volume then concentrates on focused, detailed and yet concise close ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Film Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-1933

    Tracing the Social Life of Cinema

    by Michael Cowan ...
    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    This study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theaters in the 1910s to the turbulent years of the late Weimar Republic. Examining a diverse array of groups, it approaches film societies as formations designed to assimilate and influence a new medium: a project emerging from the world of amateur science before taking new directions ... Read more

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  • Andreas Dresen

    Edited by Julian Preece, Nick Hodgin ...
    Andreas Dresen is a leading European filmmaker whose œuvre now spans three decades and includes some of the most acclaimed German films of recent times, such as Halbe Treppe (Grill Point, 2002), Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin, 2005) and Halt auf freier Strecke (Stopped on Track, 2011). The essays collected in this volume by leading scholars from the USA, UK and Ireland place him in the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • East German Cinema

    DEFA and Film History

    by S. Heiduschke ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Wiener Chic

    A Locational History of Vienna Fashion

    by Susan Ingram, Susan Ingram ...
    Vienna may not be synonymous with fashion like its metropolitan counterparts Paris and Milan, but it is a fashionable city, one that historically has been structured by changing fashions and fashionable appearances. Like the Litfaßsäule in Orson Welles’s 1949 urban noir masterpiece The Third Man, into which Harry Lime escapes in order to avoid capture and which hapless visitors today presume are ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Crime Fiction in German

    Der Krimi

    by Katharina Hall ...
    Series Book 1 - International Crime Fictions
    Crime Fiction in German is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to its vibrant growth in the new millennium. As well as introducing readers to crime fiction from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the former East Germany, the volume expands the notion of a German crime-writing tradition by ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany

    by Valerie Weinstein ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    How party propagandists worked behind the scenes to create unspoken racist messages in the German culture—even in the most lighthearted of movies.Today many Germans look back fondly on 1930s film comedies, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. Here, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent ... Read more

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  • Aesthetic Journalism

    How to Inform Without Informing

    by Alfredo Cramerotti ...
    As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • German National Cinema

    by Sabine Hake ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form.The book traces the central role of cinema in the nation’s ... Read more

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  • Rudolf Steiner's Intentions for the Anthroposophical Society

    The Executive Council, the School for Spiritual Science, and the Sections

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Christian von Arnim ...
    Although the fruits of Anthroposophy--Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, Camphill, anthroposophic medicine, and so on--are relatively well known and moderately successful, their relationship to Anthroposophy and its vehicle for transmission, the General Anthroposophical Society, and the School for Spiritual Science, remains mysterious and unclear; sadly, the same is true of the meaning and ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD