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The Forevers (Paperback)
Curt Pires; Artworks by Eric Scott Pfeiffer
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From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in
1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security
closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the
Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of
the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. Florian
Henckel von Donnersmarck's 2006 film The Lives of Others (Das Leben
der Anderen) has received international acclaim -- including an
Academy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and multiple German
Film Awards -- for its moving portrayal of East German life under
the pervasive surveillance of the Stasi.
In Totalitarianism on Screen, political theorists Carl Eric
Scott and F. Flagg Taylor IV assemble top scholars to analyze the
film from philosophical and political perspectives. Their essays
confront the nature and legacy of East Germany's totalitarian
government and outline the reasons why such regimes endure.
Other than magazine and newspaper reviews, little has been
written about The Lives of Others. This volume brings German
scholarship on the topic to an English-speaking audience for the
first time and explores the issue of government surveillance at a
time when the subject is often front-page news. Featuring
contributions from German president Joachim Gauck, prominent
singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, journalists Paul Hockenos and
Lauren Weiner, and noted scholars Paul Cantor and James Pontuso,
Totalitarianism on Screen contributes to the growing scholarship on
totalitarianism and will interest historians, political theorists,
philosophers, and fans of the film.
Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two
brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that
unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book
focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of
former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an
African American publisher, a census graph published in the New
York Times, and a cutout of a child's hand sent by a southern
mother to her husband at the front. The essays in this collection
reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and
a visual register to make sense of this pivotal period. The
collection proceeds chronologically, providing a nuanced history by
highlighting the multiple meanings an assorted group of writers and
readers discerned from the same set of circumstances. In so doing,
this volume assembles contingent and fractured visions of the Civil
War, but its differing perspectives also reveal a set of
overlapping concerns. A number of essays focus in particular on
African American engagements with visual culture. The collection
also emphasizes the role that women played in making,
disseminating, or interpreting wartime images. While every essay
explores the relationship between image and word, several
contributions focus on the ways in which Civil War images
complicate an understanding of canonical writers such as Emerson,
Melville, and Whitman.
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