Others are as valuable for their works-cited sections. The quality of scholarly insight among the individual essays is uneven, although some of the essays on methodology and aesthetics are enlightening. The essays are grouped into three sections-methodology and aesthetics, gender and sexuality, and political dimensions-that can be read either thematically, synchronically (according to visual medium), or chronologically (within the three sections) as editor Finney states in her introduction. The essays cover a huge range of visual culture in 20th-century Germany that includes early German and Nazi era cinema, recent East German cabaret stage design, television sitcoms, contemporary painting and performance art, and the architectural transformation of Berlin since 1990. "This volume of essays by 17 scholars is the outgrowth of a session on German visual culture at the 2001 Modern Language Association convention and represents a desire by German studies scholars to enter into the recently expanding arena of cultural studies. Reframing Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer, Eric Kligerman Visual Signaling Systems in East German Political Cabaret: The Case of Berlin's Distel, Michele RicciĬh. 'Send in the Clowns': Carnivalizing the Heil-Hitler Salute in German Visual Culture, Peter ArndsĬh. Face/Off: Hitler and Weimar Political Photography, Lutz KoepnickCh. Cartographic Claims: Colonial Mappings of Poland in German Territorial Revisionism, Kristin KoppĬh. Gender, Imperialism, and the Encounter with Islam: Ruth Beckermann's Film A Fleeting Passage to the Orient, Dagmar C. Activism, Alterity, Alex & Ali: Writing Germany's First Gay Sitcom, Thomas J. Brecht, Fassbinder, and Queer Montage, Patrick GreaneyĬh. Cigarettes, Advertising, and the Weimar Republic's Modern Woman, Barbara KostaĬh. (Un)Fashioning Identities: Ernst Lubitsch's Early Comedies of Mistaken Identity, Valerie WeinsteinĬh. Magnus Hirschfeld and the Photographic (Re)Invention of the 'Third Sex,' David James PrickettĬh. Las Vegas on the Spree: The Americanization of the New Berlin, Janet WardĬh. Ready, Set, Made! Joseph Beuys and the Critique of Silence, Jan MieszkowskiĬh. The Photographic Comportment of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Blake StimsonĬh. From Dance to Film: The Cinematic Art of Leni Riefenstahl and Dorothy Arzner, Dagmar von HoffĬh.
The Interarts Experiment in Early German Film, Ingeborg HoestereyĬh. Questions of Methodology in Visual Studies, Nora M. Questions of Methodology and AestheticsĬh. Gail Finney, University of California, Davis.
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