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Nazi Cinema as Enchantment

The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich

By: Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien

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Nazi Cinema as Enchantment

The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich

By: Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien

The Nazi regime did not merely terrorize its citizens into submission; it also seduced them by offering stability, a traditional value system, a sense of belonging, and hope of a better standard of living. Nazi cinema's popularity rested on its ability to express positive social fantasies and promote the enchantment of reality, so that one would want to share in the dream at any price. This is an interdisciplinary study, written for scholars and students in the fields of film studies, German studies, history, critical studies, and political science, that explores how cinema participated in the larger framework of everyday fascism. The book examines how five film 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. The book analyzes thirteen motion pictures, many of which are not well known to English-speaking audiences: Wunschkonzert, Die große Liebe, Tanz auf dem Vulkan, Damals, Die Degenhardts, Opfergang, Kautschuk, Robert und Bertram, Verklungene Melodie, Frauen für Golden Hill, Das Leben kann so schön sein, Der verzauberte Tag, and Via Mala. Based on exhaustive research in German archives, the book examines, in addition to the films themselves, articles from the propaganda ministry's official organ, Der deutsche Film, daily trade sheets, fan magazines, and even studio press packages for individual stars and films. Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of German at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.

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1571133348

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Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy

By: Elizabeth Millán

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Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy

By: Elizabeth Millán

This book addresses the philosophical reception of early German Romanticism and offers the first in-depth study in English of the movement's most important philosopher, Friedrich Schlegel, presenting his philosophy against the background of the controversies that shaped its emergence. Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert begins by distinguishing early German Romanticism from classical German Idealism, under which it has all too often been subsumed, and then explores Schlegel's romantic philosophy (and his rejection of first principles) by showing how he responded to three central figures of the post-Kantian period in Germany—Jacobi, Reinhold, and Fichte—as well as to Kant himself. She concludes with a comprehensive critique of the aesthetic and epistemological consequences of Schlegel's thought, with special attention paid to his use of irony.

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State University of New York Press

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0791480097

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Processing Choreography

Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo

By: Elizabeth Waterhouse

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Processing Choreography

Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo

By: Elizabeth Waterhouse

Told from the perspective of the dancers, »Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo« is an ethnography that reconstructs the dancers' activity within William Forsythe's Duo project. The book is written legibly for readers in dance studies, the social sciences, and dance practice. Considering how the choreography of Duo emerged through practice and changed over two decades of history (1996-2018), Elizabeth Waterhouse offers a nuanced picture of creative cooperation and institutionalized process. She presents a compelling vision of choreography as a nexus of people, im/material practices, contexts, and relations. As a former Forsythe dancer herself, the author provides novel insights into this choreographic community.

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transcript Verlag

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383945588X

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Post-Wall German Cinema and National History

Utopianism and Dissent

By: Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien

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Post-Wall German Cinema and National History

Utopianism and Dissent

By: Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien

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.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571135960

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Postmodern Brecht

A Re-Presentation

By: Elizabeth Wright

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Postmodern Brecht

A Re-Presentation

By: Elizabeth Wright

In this radical and deliberately controversial re-reading of Brecht, first published in 1989, Elizabeth Wright takes a new view of the playwright, giving us a more ‘Brechtian’ reading than so far achieved and making his work historically relevant here and now. The author discusses in detail Brecht’s principle theories and concepts in the light of poststructuralist theory, and reassess the aesthetics and politics with regard to Marxist critics of his own day. Wright includes a re-reading of Brecht’s early works, which presents them in relation to a postmodern theatre, and gives critical analyses of the work of Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, and Heiner Müller, who use the techniques of performance theatre, showing how they deconstruct Brecht’s distinction between illusion and reality and point to a postmodern understanding of their dialectical relation.

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Routledge

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1134833377

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What Difference Does a Husband Make?

Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany

By: Elizabeth D. Heineman

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What Difference Does a Husband Make?

Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany

By: Elizabeth D. Heineman

A pathbreaking book. Nothing else attempts the broad sweep or comprehensive vision that Heineman offers in this book."—Robert Moeller, author of Protecting Motherhood

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Univ of California Press

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0520239075

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Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth

Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist

By: Elizabeth Loentz

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Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth

Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist

By: Elizabeth Loentz

In 1953, Freud biographer Ernest Jones revealed that the famous hysteric Anna O. was really Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), the prolific author, German-Jewish feminist, pioneering social worker, and activist. Loentz directs attention away from the young woman who arguably invented the talking cure and back to Pappenheim and her post-Anna O. achievements, especially her writings, which reveal one of the most versatile, productive, influential, and controversial Jewish thinkers and leaders of her time.

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Hebrew Union College Press

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0878204601

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CUSTOM: Grand Canyon University SWK 540 Human Behavior in the Social Environment II: Adolescence to Late Adulthood Custom Electronic Edition

By: Elizabeth D. Hutchison

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CUSTOM: Grand Canyon University SWK 540 Human Behavior in the Social Environment II: Adolescence to Late Adulthood Custom Electronic Edition

By: Elizabeth D. Hutchison

This is a custom eBook for Grand Canyon University.

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SAGE Publications, Incorporated

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1071823701

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Sacred Hymns from the German

By: Frances Elizabeth Cox

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Sacred Hymns from the German

By: Frances Elizabeth Cox

Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

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3368885359

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Dimensions of Human Behavior

The Changing Life Course

By: Elizabeth D. Hutchison

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Dimensions of Human Behavior

The Changing Life Course

By: Elizabeth D. Hutchison

Updated Edition of a Best Seller! Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course presents a current and comprehensive examination of human behavior across time using a multidimensional framework. Author Elizabeth D. Hutchison explores both the predictable and unpredictable changes that can affect human behavior through all the major developmental stages of the life course, from conception to very late adulthood. Aligned with the 2015 curriculum guidelines set forth by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the Sixth Edition has been substantially updated with contemporary issues related to gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social class and disability across the lifespan. The companion volume, Dimensions of Human Behavior: Person and Environment, Sixth Edition, examines the dimensions of person and environment and their impact on individual and collective behavior.

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154433933X

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East German Film and the Holocaust

By: Elizabeth Ward

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East German Film and the Holocaust

By: Elizabeth Ward

East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner – a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political.

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Berghahn Books

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1789207487

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Hostages to Fortune. A Novel

Vol. II

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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Hostages to Fortune. A Novel

Vol. II

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385380758

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Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast

By: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Bernd Kortmann

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Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast

By: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Bernd Kortmann

English, today's most important international language, is probably the best-described and most widely studied language in linguistic research. This is because there is an immense body of descriptive and theoretical publications and especially because of the existence of large computer corpora for Present-Day English, as well as for older periods of the language and for regional and social varieties. The strength of current English linguistics therefore is its orientation to solid descriptive empirical research. The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics TOPICS IN.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110166909

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Freedom of Speech

The History of an Idea

By: Elizabeth Powers

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Freedom of Speech

The History of an Idea

By: Elizabeth Powers

The essays in this volume portrays the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive cultural product, 'the West,' has given rise to a triumphant universalist narrative that masks these disparate national contributions to freedom of speech and other liberal rights.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611483670

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Gender and Rural Modernity

Farm Women and the Politics of Labor in Germany, 1871-1933

By: Elizabeth Bright Jones

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Gender and Rural Modernity

Farm Women and the Politics of Labor in Germany, 1871-1933

By: Elizabeth Bright Jones

Gender and Rural Modernity explores how and why women's productive, reproductive and symbolic roles on German family farms assumed ever larger importance in the eyes of contemporary observers and how German farm women themselves shaped debates over agricultural labor and the nation's future before, during and after the First World War.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754664996

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9780754664994

Women and the Nazi East

Agents and Witnesses of Germanization

By: Elizabeth Harvey,Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Harvey

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Women and the Nazi East

Agents and Witnesses of Germanization

By: Elizabeth Harvey,Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Harvey

Examination of the role of German women in borderlands activism in Germany's eastern regions before 1939 and their involvement in Nazi measures to Germanize occupied Poland during World War II. Harvey analyses the function of female activism within Nazi imperialism, its significance and the extent to which women embraced policies intended to segregate Germans from non-Germans and to persecute Poles and Jews. She also explores the ways in which Germans after 1945 remembered the Nazi East.

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Yale University Press

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030010040X

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9780300100402

The Unfinished Manner

Essays on the Fragment in the Later Eighteenth Century

By: Elizabeth Wanning Harries

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The Unfinished Manner

Essays on the Fragment in the Later Eighteenth Century

By: Elizabeth Wanning Harries

The Unfinished Manner examines the fragments produced by European writers and artists in the eighteenth century and earlier, fragments that were not the result of an inability to finish either texts or buildings but rather deliberate refusals to make the traditional gestures of conclusion. Most books published in the past few years on the fragment and the unfinished see it as a peculiarly "Romantic" early nineteenth-century exclusively poetic form. Elizabeth Wanning Harries argues, instead, that the fragment not only had a long history beginning with Petrarch but also played an important part in the history of the novel and other kinds of prose." "Conceptualizing the fragment as a genre, Harries sheds a new light on the practice of reading fiction and "reading" ruins in the eighteenth century, complex practices that often require oscillation between two perspectives or ways of reading. She also explores the gendering of forms in eighteenth-century aesthetics - the perception of fragments as feminine (beautiful) rather than masculine (sublime) - and speculates on the fragment's meaning within the context of eighteenth-century social mythologies as well as those of later eras. Finally, she rereads Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" to show its roots in eighteenth-century fragmentary textual practices." "The Unfinished Manner takes up the questions that arise when writers and artists treat apparently unfinished forms - fragments, ruins, torsos, sketches - as finished, both in the eighteenth century and, implicitly, today. Harries's treatments of Petrarch as the initiator of the fragment tradition, of Sterne in relation to biblical criticism, of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" in relation to Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and of fragments in their relation to the feminine are original and revisionary contributions that seriously challenge some critical assumptions about Romanticism and its relationship to eighteenth-century texts."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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University of Virginia Press

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0813915023

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9780813915029

Hostages to Fortune Vol. II.

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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Hostages to Fortune Vol. II.

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This early work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon was originally published in 1875 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography of the author. 'Hostages to Fortune' is one of Braddon's novels in the sensation literature genre. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in Soho, London, England in 1835. She was educated privately in England and France, and at the age of just nineteen was offered a commission by a local printer to produce a serial novel "combining the humour of Dickens with the plot and construction of G. P. R. Reynolds" What emerged was Three Times dead, or The Secret of the Heath, which was published five years later under the title The Trail of the Serpent (1861). For the rest of her life, Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing more than eighty novels, while also finding time to write and act in a number of stage plays.

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1473392438

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