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The Tender Gaze - Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage (Hardcover): Muriel Cormican, Jennifer Marston... The Tender Gaze - Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage (Hardcover)
Muriel Cormican, Jennifer Marston William; Contributions by John Blair, Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, Nancy Nenno, …
R2,613 Discovery Miles 26 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

By exploring the concept of the "tender gaze" in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behaviors. The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the operation of power, has an extensive history of iterations such as the male gaze (Mulvey), the oppositional gaze (hooks), and the postcolonial gaze (Said). This essay collection develops a supplemental theory of what Muriel Cormican has coined the "tender gaze" and traces its occurrence in German film, theater, and literature. More than qualifying the primarily voyeuristic, narcissistic, and sexist impetus of the male gaze, the tender gaze also allows for a differentiated understanding of the role identification plays in reception, and it highlights various means of eliciting a sociopolitical critique in works of art. Emphasizing the humanizing potential of the tender gaze, the contributors argue that far from simply exciting emotional contagion, affect in art promotes an altruistic, rational, and fundamentally ethical relationship to the other. The tender gaze elucidates how perspective-taking operates in art to foster empathy and prosocial behaviors. Though the contributors identify instances of the tender gaze in artistic production since the early nineteenth century, they focus on its pervasiveness in contemporary works, corresponding to twenty-first-century concerns with implicit bias and racism.

Nazi Cinema as Enchantment - The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich (Paperback, New edition): Mary Elizabeth... Nazi Cinema as Enchantment - The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich (Paperback, New edition)
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explores how entertainment cinema served everyday fascism in Nazi Germany. Hitler's regime not only terrorized its citizens; it also seduced them, offering stability, a traditional value system, a sense of belonging, and hope of a better standard of living. Nazi cinema was part of this seduction, expressing positive social fantasies and promoting the enchantment of reality, so that one would want to share in the dream at any price. This interdisciplinary study, based on exhaustive research in German archives, examines how thirteen films from five genres - the historical musical, the foreign adventure film, the home-front film, the melodrama, and the problem film - enchanted audiences and enacted shared stories that can tell us much about how family, community, history, the nation, and the war were imagined in Nazi Germany. Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of German at Skidmore College.

Post-Wall German Cinema and National History - Utopianism and Dissent (Paperback): Mary Elizabeth O'Brien Post-Wall German Cinema and National History - Utopianism and Dissent (Paperback)
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
R1,176 R1,066 Discovery Miles 10 660 Save R110 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989. Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the '68 student movement, and the Red Army Faction -- historical flashpoints involving political oppression, civil disobedience, and the longing for utopian solutions to social injustice -- have come to be seen as decisive moments in a collective history that unites East and West even as it divides them. Telling stories about a shared past, establishing foundational myths, and finding commonalities of experience are pivotal steps in the construction of national identity. Such nation-building is always incomplete, but the cinema provides an important forum in which notions of German history and national identity can be consumed, negotiated, and contested. This book looks at history films made since 1989, exploring how utopianism and political dissent have shaped German identity. It studies the genre - including popular successes, critical successes, and perceived failures - as a set of texts and a discursive network, gauging which conventions and storylines are resilient. At issue is the overriding question: to what extent do these films contribute to a narrative that legitimizes the German nation-state? Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of Germanand The Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College.

Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens - Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich (Paperback, New Ed): Robert C.... Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens - Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich (Paperback, New Ed)
Robert C. Reimer; Contributions by Cary Nathenson, David Bathrick, Florentine Strzelczyk, Franz Birgel, …
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fascinating look at Nazi Germany as revealed in its films. This collection of essays offers a view of Nazi Germany through an analysis of twenty films, representing a sampling of the period's directors and reflecting the film medium's major genres. In spite of the control that Goebbels's film industry exercised over all aspects of filmmaking in the Third Reich, the films reveal an individuality that belies subsuming them under any one rubric or containing them within any one theory. Films such as Hitlerjunge Quex, Die große Liebe, and Auf Wiedersehen Franziska represent the Nazi film industry's efforts to propagandize through entertainment. Others such as Immensee, Kleider machen Leute, and Der Schimmelreiter reveal an attempt to expropriate Germany's rich literary past for the regime. These literary adaptations and films like Glückskinder, La Habanera, and Der Kaiser von Kalifornien today seem void of Nazi ideology if viewed outside the context of Nazism. But another film, Der ewige Jude, shocks us with its virulent anti-Semitism and hateful propaganda almost sixty years after its release. All of the films treated, regardless of their fame or notoriety or the level of commitment of their directors to the Nazi cause, played an important role in a cinema that not only represents the dreams and lives of the citizens of the Third Reich, but influencedthem as well. Robert C. Reimer is professor of German at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Virtual Walls? - Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany (Hardcover): Franziska Lys, Michael... Virtual Walls? - Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany (Hardcover)
Franziska Lys, Michael Dreyer; Contributions by Andreas Eis, Andreas Niederberger, April A. Eisman, …
R2,459 Discovery Miles 24 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey. On October 3, 1990, just a year after the Berlin Wall fell, the German Democratic Republic was absorbed into the Federal Republic of Germany, officially ceasing to exist. What was the GDR and how do we remember it? According to the dominant Western narrative, it was a country that brought neither unity nor justice nor freedom to its citizens. But if so, why does a virtual wall still seem to exist in Germany today between the erstwhile citizens of the GDR and FRG? The GDR very much remains in the public debate, and while political integration is well on its way, the cultural integration of the two former states has proven much more challenging. This volume analyzes the culturaltransformation - or lack thereof - that has followed political unification. The contributions are interdisciplinary: essays on history and politics provide a framework and others on art, film, literature, museums, music, and education provide specific examples. These case studies allow us to examine the state of unification beyond statistics, opinion polls, and glib generalizations. The volume, then, is a reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades. Even today, it is an open-ended, unfinished journey. But such journeys tend to be the most interesting. Contributors: Kerstin Barndt, Stephen Brockmann, Michael Dreyer, Andreas Eis, April A. Eisman, Peter Hayes, Franziska Lys, Charles S. Maier, Andreas Niederberger, Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien, Daniel Ortuno-Stuhring. Franziska Lys is Professor of German at Northwestern University. Michael Dreyer is Professor in the Institute for Political Science at the University of Jena.

Brother Martin - Servant Leadership in Ministry to the Sick (Paperback): Mary Elizabeth O'Brien Op Brother Martin - Servant Leadership in Ministry to the Sick (Paperback)
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien Op
R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Catherine of Siena - A Sacred Covenant of Caring for the Sick (Paperback): Mary Elizabeth O'Brien Catherine of Siena - A Sacred Covenant of Caring for the Sick (Paperback)
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blessed Margaret of Castello - Servant of the Sick and the Outcast (Paperback): Mary Elizabeth O'Brien Blessed Margaret of Castello - Servant of the Sick and the Outcast (Paperback)
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Servant Leadership In Nursing (Paperback, Nursing): Mary Elizabeth O'Brien Servant Leadership In Nursing (Paperback, Nursing)
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
R1,893 Discovery Miles 18 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Servant Leadership in Nursing: Spirituality and Practice in Contemporary Healthcare embraces the philosophy that a true leader, in any venue, must be a servant of those he or she leads. This text includes current information on the relevance of servant leadership for nurses practicing in a healthcare setting with extensive literature review on leadership in nursing and health care as well as on servant leadership. This unique text also includes a newly developed model of servant leadership in nursing, supported by powerful and poignant perceptions and experiences of servant leadership elicited in interviews with 75 contemporary nursing leaders.

A Sacred Covenant: The Spiritual Ministry of Nursing (Paperback): Mary Elizabeth O'Brien A Sacred Covenant: The Spiritual Ministry of Nursing (Paperback)
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
R2,316 Discovery Miles 23 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New From Celebrated Author Mary Elizabeth O'brien, A Sacred Covenant: The Spiritual Ministry Of Nursing Focuses On The Nurse'S Personal Spirituality And Spiritual Needs And Is A Great Companion To Her Other Books Especially Spirituality In Nursing: Standing On Holy Ground. Each Chapter Is Based In Scripture, Both Old And New Testament, Providing A Broad Spiritual Grounding For The Topics Discussed.

Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground (Paperback, 7th edition): Mary Elizabeth O'Brien Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground (Paperback, 7th edition)
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
R1,549 Discovery Miles 15 490 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground, Seventh Edition addresses the relationship between spirituality and nursing practice across a variety of settings related to caring for the ill and the infirm. The text covers the spiritual needs of special populations including children, families, and older adults, and takes on several significant issues in our society such as addiction, domestic terrorism, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seventh Edition examines both historical and contemporary issues pertaining to the spiritual needs and care of the sick. The text includes topical discussions of areas such as the nurse's role in spiritual care, the nurse-patient relationship, spiritual needs of special populations, and spiritual needs in areas such as mass casualty disasters and parish leadership. New content and references have been added to each chapter to reflect the most current ideas on spirituality in nursing.

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