Spectacle
Published on 21. August 2015
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-3-0343-1803-7 (ISBN)
Description
How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits - aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic - of spectacle? How do we explain the inherently exclusionary, revolutionary, dehumanizing and utopian elements of spectacle?
In this book, authors from the fields of cultural studies, cinema studies, history and art history examine the concept of spectacle in the German context across various media forms, historical periods and institutional divides. Drawing on theoretical models of spectacle by Guy Debord, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Jonathan Crary and Michel Foucault, the contributors to this volume suggest that a decidedly German concept of spectacle can be gleaned from critical interventions into exhibitions, architectural milestones, audiovisual materials and cinematic and photographic images emerging out of German culture from the Baroque to the contemporary.
Reviews / Votes
<<Overall, this volume provides a fascinating, multifaceted, and truly interdisciplinary look at spectacle in the German context. It is of considerable value to students and scholars in German studies.>>(Rick McCormick, Feminist German Studies 34/2019)
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
597 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-1803-7 (9783034318037)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0654-5
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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.
Content
Contents: Thomas O. Haakenson: What is <<German Spectacle>>? - Jacob M. Baum: Opening a Window to the Devil: Religious Ritual as Baroque Spectacle in Early Modern Germany - Elizabeth Otto: Bauhaus Spectacles, Bauhaus Specters - Brian Hanrahan: Live on the Air, Live on the Ground: The <<Chamberlin Flight>> as Spectacular Event, June 1927 - Paul Monty Paret: Berlin in Light: Wilhelmine Monuments and Weimar Mass Culture - Sara Ann Sewell: Spectacles in Everyday Life: The Disciplinary Function of Communist Culture in Weimar Germany - Nadine Rossol: Spectacular Settings for Nazi Spectacles: Mass Theater in the Third Reich - Jennifer L. Creech: Gudrun is Not a Fighting Fuck Toy: Spectacle, Femininity and Terrorism in The Baader-Meinhof Complex and The Raspberry Reich - Deborah Ascher Barnstone: Spectacular Architecture: Transparency in Postwar West German Parliaments - Heather Mathews: Beyond the Global Spectacle: Documenta 13 and Multicultural Germany - Brechtje Beuker: The Spectacle of Terrorism and the Threat of Theatricality.