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  • Free Action

    Jazz as a Catalyst in West German Arts and Culture

    by Andrew Wright Hurley ...
    Series series Transnational Studies in Jazz
    Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era.The shadow of National Socialism, a history of German polarisation by jazz, and the influences of occupation and division, meant that jazz catalysed influential young creative artists. These ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements

    Edited by Lars Eckstein, Andrew Wright Hurley ...
    Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies.Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook’s voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Anxious Journeys

    Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German

    by Professor Karin Baumgartner, John Blair, Magda Tarnawska Senel, Monika Shafi, Professor Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Nicole Grewling, Sunka Simon, Andrew Wright Hurley0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Carola Daffner2, Christina Gerhardt3, Christina Kraenzle4, Gundela Hachmann5, Heather Merle Benbow6 ...
    The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Rammstein on Fire

    New Perspectives on the Music and Performances

    Edited by John T. Littlejohn, Michael T. Putnam ...
    This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. Topics range from Rammstein's connection with 19th century German literature and their East German heritage to cannibalism and the supernatural. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Postwall German Cinema

    History, Film History and Cinephilia

    by Mattias Frey ...
    Series Book 14 - Film Europa
    Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home and abroad, where they count among the most popular German films of all time. Recently, however, the country’s cinematic take on history has seen a significant new development: the radical style, content, and ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Tatort Germany

    The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction

    by Lynn M. Kutch, Magdalena Waligórska, Sascha Gerhards, Susanne C. Knittel, Todd Herzog, Traci S. O'Brien, Angelika Baier, Anita McChesney, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming0, Faye Stewart1, Heike Henderson2, Jon Sherman3, Kyle Frackman4 ...
    Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

    The Politics of Memory

    by A. Fuchs ...
    Series series New Perspectives in German Political Studies
    Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria

    Edited by Gabriele Mueller, James M. Skidmore ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The “cinema of consensus,” a term coined to describe the popular and commercially oriented filmmaking of the 1990s, has given way to a more heterogeneous and critical cinema culture. Making the greatest artistic impact since the 1970s, contemporary cinema is responding to questions ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Revolutions at Home

    The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class

    by Emily C. Bruce ...
    Series series Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth
    How did we come to imagine what "ideal childhood" requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and as these innovations in ideology and educational practice spread from middle-class families across European society, childhood came to be seen as a life stage critical to self-formation. This new approach was in part a process that adults imposed on ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • 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

    $77.99 USD

  • Crime Fiction in German

    Der Krimi

    by Katharina Hall ...
    Series series 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • German Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Boyle ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it ... Read more

    $7.99 USD