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Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (Hardcover): Erica Carter Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (Hardcover)
Erica Carter
R3,987 Discovery Miles 39 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Dietrich's Ghosts "is the first major English-language study to look at the star system under the Third Reich. Erica Carter argues that after the Weimar period, the German star system was reorganized to foster an anti-modernist mode of spectatorship geared to an appreciation of the beautiful and the sublime.
Carter discusses the reconfiguring of film production and exhibition around idealist aesthetic principles and offers case studies of three stars. Emil Jannings figures as an exemplar of what Carter terms the "volkisch "sublime, while Marlene Dietrich emerges as a figure at the crossroads of modernist and idealist conceptions of beauty. A provocative chapter on Zarah Leander in the feature films of the early war years portrays this star as a post-Dietrich emblem of the supposed sublimity of a fascist war.
This unprecedented new study reassesses existing paradigms in German film history debates and throws suggestive new light on the icons and popular culture of the Third Reich.

Bela Balazs: Early Film Theory - Visible Man and The Spirit of Film (Hardcover): B-Ela Bal-Azs, Erica Carter, Rodney Livingstone Bela Balazs: Early Film Theory - Visible Man and The Spirit of Film (Hardcover)
B-Ela Bal-Azs, Erica Carter, Rodney Livingstone
R2,683 Discovery Miles 26 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bela Balazs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Balazs's detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution - such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin - to critical debate on film in the 'golden age' of the Weimar silents.

Bela Balazs was a Hungarian Jewish film theorist, author, screenwriter and film director who was at the forefront of Hungarian literary life before being forced into exile for Communist activity after 1919. His German-language theoretical essays on film date from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, the period of his early exile in Vienna and Berlin.

Erica Carter is Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick. Her writings on film include The German Cinema Book (co-ed. Tim Bergfelder & Deniz Gokturk, 2002), and Dietrich's Ghosts. The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (2004).

Rodney Livingstone is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Southampton. He is an American Translators Association award winner for his work on Detlef Claussen's Life of Adorno: Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius (2008). He is well known as a translator of books by Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Max Weber, among others."

German Division as Shared Experience - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday: Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski,... German Division as Shared Experience - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday
Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, Katrin Schreiter
R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were experienced, lived and felt. Through its novel approach to historical method, the volume points to new understandings of the place of narrative, form and lived sensibility in shaping Germans’ simultaneously shared and separate experiences of belonging during forty years of division from 1945 to 1990.

Mapping the Sensible - Distribution, Inscription, Cinematic Thinking (Paperback): Erica Carter, Bettina Malcomess, Eileen... Mapping the Sensible - Distribution, Inscription, Cinematic Thinking (Paperback)
Erica Carter, Bettina Malcomess, Eileen Rositzka
R559 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R92 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In academic and public discourse, 'mapping' has become a ubiquitous term for epistemic practices ranging from surveys of scholarly fields to processes of data collection, ordering and visualization. Mapping captures patterns of distribution, segregation and hierarchy across socio-cultural spaces and geographical territories. Often lost in such accounts, however, is the experiential dimension of mapping as an aesthetic practice with determinate social, cultural and political effects. This volume draws on approaches from film philosophy, media archaeology, decolonial scholarship and independent film practice to explore mapping as a mediated experience in which film becomes entangled in larger processes of historical subject-formation, as well as in dissident reconfigurations of cultural memory. Proposing an approach to mapping through decolonial aesthetics and poetic thinking, the three essays in this volume help define a film studies perspective on mapping as a practice that structures political and aesthetic regimes, organizes and communicates shared realities, but also enables dissenting reconfigurations of concretely experienced worlds.

German Division as Shared Experience - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday (Hardcover): Erica Carter, Jan... German Division as Shared Experience - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday (Hardcover)
Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, Katrin Schreiter
R2,672 Discovery Miles 26 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were experienced, lived and felt. Through its novel approach to historical method, the volume points to new understandings of the place of narrative, form and lived sensibility in shaping Germans' simultaneously shared and separate experiences of belonging during forty years of division from 1945 to 1990.

Bela Balazs: Early Film Theory - Visible Man and The Spirit of Film (Paperback): B-Ela Bal-Azs, Erica Carter, Rodney Livingstone Bela Balazs: Early Film Theory - Visible Man and The Spirit of Film (Paperback)
B-Ela Bal-Azs, Erica Carter, Rodney Livingstone
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

" The book is] part of the Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context series. It] has an attractive typeface and a well-designed layout. In addition to Carter's introduction there is also a useful Glossary of terms and an Appendix with two reviews... In all, this book is a very good introduction to Balazs' film philosophy and a long overdue entry into the English-speaking world of film literature." . Screening the Past "An exemplary book in every way, this translation makes Balazs' revolutionary texts available in English for the first time ... Dating from 1924 and 1930 respectively, The Visible Man and The Spirit of Film had a decisive influence on such major Russian filmmakers as Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sergei Eisenstein, and were among the first studies to examine filmic syntax, grammar, and editorial structure. Including a detailed introduction and numerous illustrations, this volume is a must for anyone serious about film ... Highly recommended." . Choice Bela Balazs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Balazs's detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution - such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin - to critical debate on film in the 'golden age' of the Weimar silents.

The German Cinema Book (Paperback, 2nd edition): Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Goekturk, Claudia Sandberg The German Cinema Book (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Goekturk, Claudia Sandberg
R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women's and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The Lives of Others, The Edge of Heaven and many more); stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers, to Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss; directors including F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Wim Wenders and Helke Sander; and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Bela Balazs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.

James Campbell - A Life To Remember (Paperback): Erica Carter, Karl Kramer James Campbell - A Life To Remember (Paperback)
Erica Carter, Karl Kramer
R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Love Yourself First - 102 Quotes For Discovering Self-Love Everyday (Paperback): Erica Carter Love Yourself First - 102 Quotes For Discovering Self-Love Everyday (Paperback)
Erica Carter
R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From the Beginning (Paperback): Erica Carter From the Beginning (Paperback)
Erica Carter
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Screening War - Perspectives on German Suffering (Hardcover): Paul Cooke - see C80107, Marc Silberman Screening War - Perspectives on German Suffering (Hardcover)
Paul Cooke - see C80107, Marc Silberman; Contributions by Brad Prager, Daniela Berghahn, David Clarke, …
R2,581 Discovery Miles 25 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath. The recent "discovery" of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated Downfall (2004) and the two-part television mini-series Dresden (2006) have shown how ordinary Germans suffered during and after the war. Such films have been presented by critics as treating a topic that had been taboo for German filmmakers. However, the representation of wartime suffering has a long tradition on the German screen. For decades, filmmakers have recontextualized images of Germans as victims to engage shifting social and ideological discourses. By focusing on this process, the present volume explores how the changing representation of Germans as victims has shaped the ways in which both of the postwar German states and the now-unified nation have attempted to facethe trauma of the past and to construct a contemporary place for themselves in the world. Contributors: Sean Allan, Tim Bergfelder, Daniela Berghahn, Erica Carter, David Clarke, John E. Davidson, Sabine Hake, JenniferKapczynski, Manuel Koeppen, Rachel Palfreyman, Brad Prager, Johannes von Moltke. Paul Cooke is Professor of German Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and Marc Silberman is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin.

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