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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"German film"”.
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German film, world travel: Berlin, Hollywood, Bombay
This dissertation considers the work of German filmmakers who traveled to the United States and India between 1919 and 1936. This subject covers a wide range of documentary and feature films made throughout the interwar period, which are significant for two main reasons. First, through these films, …
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Master of the house: de-mythologizing the father in Turkish-German film
… sets out to answer a question: why the Turkish-German films of the last decade have without exception presented the father as impaired or absent? The parameters of the inquiry are set out in an introductory chapter, which also outlines the establishes the theoretical framework for the thesis. An …
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A new narrative frame: sound design and conceptual storytelling in German film 1930-1933.
… at a time when the democratic principles of German government came under increasing pressure from national as well as global political and economic forces, sound film became rapidly established as an innovative element in German cinema. With the arrival of technology enabling the production …
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Male Subjectivity and Twenty-First Century German Cinema: Gender, National Idenity, and the Problem of Normalization
… and national identity intersect in contemporary German cinema. The fundamental premise behind it is that masculinity, or rather male subjectivity, functions as the nodal point for negotiating national identity. Thus the thesis argues that the contemporary process of German normalization attempts …
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Background music : National Socialist propaganda and the reinforcement of German virtue
… propaganda used by the National Socialist party, film and advertising in a middle-class German periodical, I compare subtle and overt propaganda methods, as well as the differing approaches the Reich Ministry for Propaganda took when targeting varying audiences. My first chapter is an in depth …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
<p>My dissertation analyzes the representation of Germans as victims of the Third Reich and the Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no longer were two states that could each blame the other as the heir of National Socialism and this past had to be renegotiated. The …
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“Alles ist nur Wörter”: the critique of German history in Michael Stock’s Prinz in Hölleland
… 1990s Queer Cinema exploded onto the independent film scene in North America. Most film festivals at the time featured several queer films that broke the boundaries of film-making techniques, conventional narration, and what was considered acceptable by mainstream audiences. By openly discussing …
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“Das ist die Broadway Melodie”: American cultural motifs in German music film 1929 – 1945
This thesis analyses American cultural motifs in German music films in the years 1929 – 1945 and focuses on generic trends that bridged the political caesura of the year 1933 as the end of Germany’s first democracy and the beginning of the dictatorial rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nationalist …
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Between Heimat and Fremde: New Configurations of Happiness in Contemporary German Literature and Film
… representations of happiness in recent German literature and film. The interpretations focus on how happiness is negotiated in the context of home and travel, of Heimat and Fremde, in order to understand happiness, not only insofar as it contributes to “the good life”, but also as an …
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New Forms of Kinship in Contemporary Literature and Film from the German-Speaking World
… is concerned with the ways in which contemporary German-language literature and film partake in the representation, interrogation, and constitution of kinship as a contested field of social relations in the twenty-first century. In considering kinship, with the philosopher Judith Butler, as the …
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'Face Value' in the Moving Image Practices of Harun Farocki, William Kentridge, and Hito Steyerl
… a locus of capture and resistance in the essay films and installations of Harun Farocki, the performance and video art of Hito Steyerl, and William Kentridge’s intermedial productions for gallery and stage. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s articulation of the face as a site of political …