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German Studies

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Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier

By Naama Harel
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies

Traces the dissolution of the boundary between human and other animals in the work of Franz Kafka and, in doing so, radically revisits interspecies relations

White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

By Priscilla Dionne Layne
Subjects: German Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

By Cathy Gelbin & Sander Gilman
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first conceptual history of the development and evolution of the image of Jews and Jewish participation in modern German-speaking cosmopolitanist thought

 

Three-Way Street

Jews, Germans, and the Transnational

By Jay Howard Geller & Leslie Morris
Subjects: History, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tracing Germany’s significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture

An Emotional State

The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture

By Anna M. Parkinson
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the extent of Germany’s emotional responses in the postwar period, challenging persistent paradigms

Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837

By Alessa Johns
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

An examination of British and German processes of cultural transfer, as spearheaded by feminist reformists, from 1714 to 1837

Culture in the Anteroom

The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer

By Johannes von Moltke & Gerd Gemunden
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History, German History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

An interdisciplinary approach to Kracauer's body of work

The New Woman International

Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s

Edited by Elizabeth Otto & Vanessa Rocco
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Media Studies, New Media, German Studies

An international picture of New Woman in film and photography

The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830

Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society

By Todd M. Endelman
Subjects: History, Religion, Cultural Studies, German Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A landmark study of the rise of Anglo-Jewish society in eighteenth century England

Projecting History

German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000

By Nora M. Alter
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The intersection between social, historical, and political developments in Germany and the emergence of a nonfiction mode of film production

Socialist Modern

East German Everyday Culture and Politics

Edited by Katherine Pence & Paul Betts
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores the ways in which modernity shaped the relationship between socialist state and society in East Germany

Chic Ironic Bitterness

By R. Jay Magill
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, German Studies

A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture

The Future of Class in History

What's Left of the Social?

By Geoff Eley & Keith Nield
Subjects: History, Historical Methods and Theory, American Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Political History, Class Studies

In the struggle between "social" and "cultural" thinking, the refusal to choose sides can be a radical and vital move

German Pop Culture

How "American" Is It?

Edited by Agnes C. Mueller
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An incisive study of the impact of American culture on modern German society

The Challenge of Modernity

German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960

By Adelheid von Saldern
Translated by Bruce Little
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A collection of work in translation by the celebrated, influential German historian Adelheid von Saldern

Exclusionary Violence

Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History

Edited by Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, and Helmut Walser Smith
Subjects: German Studies, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A comprehensive examination of pre-Nazi violence against Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany

That Was the Wild East

Film Culture, Unification, and the "New" Germany

By Leonie Naughton
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An illuminating exploration of the cultural politics of the East-West unification and its subsequent impact upon German filmmaking

Being Elsewhere

Tourism, Consumer Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe and North America

Edited by Shelley Osmun Baranowski & Ellen Furlough
Subjects: History, German Studies, Cultural Studies

A guide to vacationing, from the 1800s to the present

Shifting Memories

The Nazi Past in the New Germany

By Klaus Neumann
Subjects: History, German Studies, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A long look at how contemporary Germany is remembering the Holocaust

The Imperialist Imagination

German Colonialism and Its Legacy

Edited by Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne M. Zantop
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature

Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930

Edited by Geoff Eley
Subjects: History, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Bold new essays on Germany's critical Kaiserreich period.

A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies

Edited by Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation

West Germany under Construction

Politics, Society, and Culture in the Adenauer Era

Edited by Robert G. Moeller
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Collects important recent essays in a critical reexamination of the Federal Republic's early history

The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World

By Slavoj Zizek & F.W.J. von Schelling
Translated by Judith Norman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft

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