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Christine Becker-Schmidt
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Jurek Becker (1937-97) is best known for his novel Jacob the Liar,
which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the
Lodz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfiction, and the
essays, lectures, and interviews collected in My Father, the
Germans and I share a common thread in that they each speak to
Becker's interactions with and opinions on the social, political,
and cultural conditions of twentieth-century Germany. Becker, who
had lived in both German states and in unified Germany, was
passionately and humorously active in the political debates of his
time. Becker never directly aligned himself with either the
political ideology of East Germany or the capitalist market forces
of West Germany. The remains of fascism in postwar Germany, and the
demise of Socialism, as well as racism and xenophobic violence,
were topics that perpetually interested Becker. However, his
writings, as evidenced in this collection, were never pedantic, but
always entertaining, retaining the sense of humor that made his
novels so admired. My Father, the Germans and I gives expression to
an exceptional author's perception of himself and the world and to
his tireless attempt to bring his own unique tone of linguistic
brevity, irony, and balance to German relations.
Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland,
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and
Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, William Powell and
Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, and Gary Cooper-"Glamour in a Golden Age"
presents original essays from eminent film scholars that analyze
movie stars of the 1930s against the background of contemporary
American cultural history.
Stardom is approached as an effect of, and influence on, the
particular historical and industrial contexts that enabled these
actors and actresses to be discovered, featured in films,
publicized, and to become recognized and admired-sometimes even
notorious-parts of the cultural landscape. Using archival and
popular material, including fan and mass market magazines, other
promotional and publicity material, and of course films themselves,
contributors also discuss other artists who were incredibly popular
at the time, among them Ann Harding, Ruth Chatterton, Nancy
Carroll, Kay Francis, and Constance Bennett.
2012 wurde das Netzwerk-Projekt Landeskunde Nord ins Leben gerufen,
dessen Ziel es ist, Forschung und Lehre zur Landeskunde des
Deutschen als Fremdsprache, insbesondere in den nordischen Landern,
voranzutreiben. Das vorliegende Buch, Perspektive Nord, knupft an
den 2013 erschienenen Band Landeskunde Nord an und bietet
Reflexionen wissenschaftstheoretischer, fachdidaktischer und
inhaltlicher Aspekte, die fur die Gestaltung der Landeskundelehre
bzw. des Landeskundeunterrichts relevant sind. In ihrer Vielfalt
sind die hier vorgelegten Konzepte und Ideen vor allem modernen
kulturwissenschaftlichen Ansatzen verpflichtet, knupfen an
international gefuhrte Diskussionen an und haben auch deshalb uber
die nordischen Lander hinaus Bedeutung. Dabei setzen die Autorinnen
und Autoren auf autonomes und lebenslanges Lernen.
The interplay between television and film in the 1950s transformed
television production and programming, affected the careers of
countless film actors, and challenged the traditional mechanisms of
the Hollywood star system. In this groundbreaking study, Christine
Becker asks why certain film stars, like Ronald Reagan and Ida
Lupino, crossed over to television in this period while others did
not, why some succeeded in the new medium and others failed, and
how the presence of film stars shaped the nature of certain
television genres. Using extensive primary source material and new
archival research, It's the Pictures That Got Small argues that the
early film-to-television crossover turned traditional myths of
star-making inside out, fundamentally altering the standard
workings of the Hollywood star system. By looking at a broad range
of popular stars of the fifties, Becker paints a revealing portrait
of the relationship between film and television in the waning days
of the classical studio system and the budding years of commercial
TV. The book includes an appendix of established film stars and the
TV shows they appeared on.
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