Spectacle

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2015] and ©2015

Subject:

Visual communication - Germany - History
Visual communication - Germany - History - 20th century
Germany - Civilization
Spectacular, The

Contributor:

Creech, Jennifer L., editor
Haakenson, Thomas O., editor

ISBN:

9783034318037 and 3034318030

Series:

German visual culture

Description:

xii, 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

What is "German spectacle"? / Thomas O. Haakenson -- Opening a window to the devil: religious ritual as Baroque spectacle in early modern Germany / Jacob M. Baum -- Bauhaus spectacles, Bauhaus specters / Elizabeth Otto -- Live on the air, live on the ground: the "Chamberlin flight" as spectacular event, June 1927 / Brían Hanrahan -- Berlin in Light: Wilhelmine monuments and Weimar mass culture / Paul Monty Paret -- Spectacles in everyday life: the disciplinary function of communist culture in Weimar Germany / Sara Ann Sewell -- Spectacular settings for Nazi spectacles: mass theater in the Third Reich / Nadine Rossol -- Gudrun is not a fighting fuck toy: spectacle, femininity and terrorism in The Baader-Meinhof Complex and The Raspberry Reich / Jennifer L. Creech -- Spectacular architecture: transparency in postwar West German parliaments / Deborah Ascher Barnstone -- Beyond the global spectacle: Documenta 13 and multicultural Germany / Heather Mathews -- The spectacle of terrorism and the threat of theatricality / Brechtje Beuker

Summary:

"How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits - aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic - of spectacle? How do we explain the inherently exclusionary, revolutionary, dehumanizing and utopian elements of spectacle? In this book, authors from the fields of cultural studies, cinema studies, history and art history examine the concept of spectacle in the German context across various media forms, historical periods and institutional divides. Drawing on theoretical models of spectacle by Guy Debord, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Jonathan Crary and Michel Foucault, the contributors to this volume suggest that a decidedly German concept of spectacle can be gleaned from critical interventions into exhibitions, architectural milestones, audiovisual materials and cinematic and photographic images emerging out of German culture from the Baroque to the contemporary-- Back cover

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

P93.5 .S64 2015

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