Michael Wedel
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Like every history, the history of film can be grasped not just as a temporal phenomenon, but also within the specificity with which it has inscribed itself into concrete places. The question of how this has occurred at different points in German film history forms the starting point of this book. Using five examples, it explores the social and political horizons of heterotopic concepts of space in German film from the 1930s to the 1990s: Hamburg...
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Has European cinema, in the age of globalization, lost contact not only with the world at large, but with its own audiences? Between the thriving festival circuit and the obligatory late-night television slot, is there still a public or a public sphere for European films? Can the cinema be the appropriate medium for a multicultural Europe and its migrating multitudes? Is there a division of representational labor, with Hollywood providing stars and...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Did 1968 fail? The question is misstated. For the significance and consequences of '68 cannot be captured in a coherent narrative. That year appears as the point of culmination of a set of highly heterogeneous cultural, social, and political phenomena. Cinema, with its classics and gems to be (re-)discovered, proves to be a kaleidoscope that lets us perceive the fractures and contradictions of '68.
Ist 1968 gescheitert? Die Frage ist falsch gestellt....
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Theodor Fontane war, im durchaus modernen Sinne, ein Medienarbeiter: Als Presse-Agent in London lernte er die innovativste Presselandschaft seiner Zeit kennen; als Redakteur in Berlin leistete er journalistische Kärrnerarbeit; er schrieb Kritiken über das Theater, die bildende Kunst und die Literatur - und auch seine Romane wie seine Reisebücher sind stets Medienprodukte, als Serien in in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften platziert, bevor sie auf dem...