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Essays examining the circulation and adaptation of German culture
in the United States during the long 19th century. Building on
recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done
under the rubric of cultural transfer, this volume emphasizes the
processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed
German cultural material for their own purposes. The fourteen
essays by scholars from the US and Germany treat such topics as
translation, the reading of German literature in America, the
adaptation of German ideas and educational ideals, the reception
and transformation of European genres of writing, and the status of
the "German" and the "European" in celebrations of American culture
and criticisms of American racism. The volume contributes to the
ongoing re-conception of American culture as significantly informed
by non-English-speaking European cultures. It also participates in
the efforts of historians and literary scholars to re-theorize the
construction of national cultures. Questions regarding hybridity,
cultural agency, and strategies of acculturation have long been at
the center of postcolonial studies, but as this volume
demonstrates, these phenomena are not merely operative in
encounters between colonizers and colonized: they are also
fundamental to the early American reception and appropriation of
German cultural materials. Contributors: Hinrich C. Seeba, Eric
Ames, Claudia Liebrand, Paul Michael Lutzeler, Kirsten Belgum,
Robert C. Holub, Jeffrey Grossman, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Linda Rugg,
Gerhild Scholz Williams, Gerhard Weiss, Lorie Vanchena. Lynne
Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the
Humanities and Matt Erlin is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Germanic Languages and Literatures, both at Washington
University in St. Louis.
Eric Ames draws on original archival research to provide fresh
perspectives on Werner Herzog's breakthrough 1972 film, Aguirre,
the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes), which portrays an
expedition by Spanish conquistadors led by Aguirre (played by Klaus
Kinski) to find the legendary city of El Dorado. Ames explores how
the film is remembered: for its breathtaking visual style and
narrative power, but also for Herzog's tense, behind-the-scenes
relationship with star Kinski. Did Herzog really direct him at
gunpoint? Did they plot each other's murder? The legends begin here
... Ames reconstructs the film as an experiment in visualising the
past from the viewpoint of the present. Aguirre is not a history
film in the narrow sense, but it does engage a specific episode in
the conquest of the New World, and it explores that history in
terms of vision. Interweaving close analysis with extensive
archival research, Ames explores Aguirre as a seminal film about
the madness and hopelessness of Western striving. In addition, as
an appendix, he offers for the first time a complete translation of
an infamous, secretly recorded argument between Herzog and Kinski
on the set.
Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such
visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films,
roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement
delivered during a public appearance in 1999, the filmmaker
declared: "There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is
such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and
elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and
imagination and stylization." Ferocious Reality is the first book
to ask how this conviction, so hostile to the traditional tenets of
documentary, can inform the work of one of the world's most
provocative documentarians. Herzog, whose Cave of Forgotten Dreams
was perhaps the most celebrated documentary of 2010, may be the
most influential filmmaker missing from major studies and histories
of documentary. Examining such notable films as Lessons of Darkness
(1992) and Grizzly Man (2005), Eric Ames shows how Herzog dismisses
documentary as a mode of filmmaking in order to creatively
intervene and participate in it. In close, contextualized analysis
of more than twenty-five films spanning Herzog's career, Ames makes
a case for exploring documentary films in terms of performance and
explains what it means to do so. Thus his book expands the field of
cinema studies even as it offers an invaluable new perspective on a
little studied but integral part of Werner Herzog's extraordinary
oeuvre.
Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b.
1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred
interviews. This collection features the best of these, focusing on
all the major films, from Signs of Life and Aguirre, the Wrath of
God to Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. When did Herzog
decide to become a filmmaker? Who are his key influences? Where
does he find his peculiar themes and characters? What role does
music play in his films? How does he see himself in relation to the
German past and in relation to film history? And how did he ever
survive the wrath of Klaus Kinski? Herzog answers these and many
other questions in twenty-five interviews ranging from the 1960s to
the present. Critics and fans recognized Herzog's importance as a
young German filmmaker early on, but his films have attained
international significance over the decades. Most of the interviews
collected in this volume--some of them from Herzog's production
archive and previously unpublished--appear in English for the very
first time. Together, they offer an unprecedented look at Herzog's
work, his career, and his public persona as it has developed and
changed over time.
Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German
colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark
book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this
volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the
United States. It also commemorates Zantop's distinguished life and
career (1945-2001). Some essays in this volume focus on Germany's
formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and
1914, while others present material from earlier or later periods
such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in
German-ruled Polish lands. Several essays examine Germany's
postcolonial era, a complex period that includes the Weimar
Republic, Nazi Germany with its renewed colonial obsessions, and
the post-1945 era. Particular areas of emphasis include the
relationship of anti-Semitism to colonial racism; respectability,
sexuality, and cultural hierarchies in the formal empire; Nazi
representations of colonialism; and contemporary perceptions of
race. The volume's disciplinary reach extends to musicology,
religious studies, film, and tourism studies as well as literary
analysis and history. These essays demonstrate why modern Germany
must confront its colonial and postcolonial pasts, and how those
pasts continue to shape the German cultural imagination. Eric Ames
is an assistant professor of German at the University of
Washington. Marcia Klotz is an instructor in the English department
at Portland State University. Lora Wildenthal is an associate
professor of history at Rice University. Sander L. Gilman is
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory
University and the author of Fat Boys: A Slim Book (Nebraska 2004).
Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b.
1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred
interviews. This collection features the best of these, focusing on
all the major films, from Signs of Life and Aguirre, the Wrath of
God to Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. When did Herzog
decide to become a filmmaker? Who are his key influences? Where
does he find his peculiar themes and characters? What role does
music play in his films? How does he see himself in relation to the
German past and in relation to film history? And how did he ever
survive the wrath of Klaus Kinski? Herzog answers these and many
other questions in twenty-five interviews ranging from the 1960s to
the present. Critics and fans recognized Herzog's importance as a
young German filmmaker early on, but his films have attained
international significance over the decades. Most of the interviews
collected in this volume--some of them from Herzog's production
archive and previously unpublished--appear in English for the very
first time. Together, they offer an unprecedented look at Herzog's
work, his career, and his public persona as it has developed and
changed over time.
"Germany's Colonial Pasts" is a wide-ranging study of German
colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark
book "Colonial Fantasies," and extending her analyses there, this
volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the
United States. It also commemorates Zantop's distinguished life and
career (1945-2001). Some essays in this volume focus on Germany's
formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and
1914, while others present material from earlier or later periods
such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in
German-ruled Polish lands. Several essays examine Germany's
postcolonial era, a complex period that includes the Weimar
Republic, Nazi Germany with its renewed colonial obsessions, and
the post-1945 era. Particular areas of emphasis include the
relationship of anti-Semitism to colonial racism; respectability,
sexuality, and cultural hierarchies in the formal empire; Nazi
representations of colonialism; and contemporary perceptions of
race. The volume's disciplinary reach extends to musicology,
religious studies, film, and tourism studies as well as literary
analysis and history. These essays demonstrate why modern Germany
must confront its colonial and postcolonial pasts, and how those
pasts continue to shape the German cultural imagination.
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