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Author:   Dr Clare Bielby ,  Professor Mererid Puw Davies ,  Dr Katharina Karcher ,  Evelien Geerts
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Weight:   0.001kg
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9781640141148

ISBN 10:   1640141146
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   19 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction - Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies 1, Projecting Violence Elsewhere: Remembering Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Cold War Germany - Katherine Stone 2. Watching Violence Elsewhere: Louis Malle's Viva Maria! in 1960s West Germany - Mererid Puw Davies 3. Images as Weapons: DEFA, Studio H&S, and the Global Cold War - Seán Allan 4. KriegsErklärung (Declaration of War): Volker Braun's Cold War Camera - J. J. Long 5. The Vietnam Veteran in Anna Seghers's Steinzeit (Stone Age, 1975) - Ernest Schonfield 6. ""So It Has to Be Said: Hammer and Sickle Here, Hammer and Sickle There"": Heynowski-Scheumann's Die Angkar (1981) and the Problem of Khmer Rouge Violence for the GDR - Martin Brady 7. Narrating Violent Agency Elsewhere in Inge Viett's Nie war ich furchtloser (Never Was I More Fearless, 1996) - Clare Bielby 8. Problematizing Political Violence in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Hauntological Analysis of the NSU Terror and a Hyper-Exceptionalized ""9/11"" - Katharina Karcher and Evelien Geerts Selected Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index"

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CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. MERERID PUW DAVIES is Professor of German Studies at University College London, UK. CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. MERERID PUW DAVIES is Professor of German Studies at University College London, UK. SEÁN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universität in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment, interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts, as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House, 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters, entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist, Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012), and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book, Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019), investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film, but also literature, music, and the visual arts in post-war cinema. Katherine Stone is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick

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