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... American contexts. This article analyzes how the letter writers' uses of Nietzsche resulted from the friction between the transnational traffic of his philosophy and their daily needs, the image and reality of his remoteness from their own time and place, and the immediacy of their lived experiences...

...Detlev Claussen New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Intellectual Transfer: Theodor W. Adorno’s American Experience Detlev Claussen By the late 1960s Theodor W. Adorno had already become a kind of institution in Germany. Adorno himself...

... of psychoanalysis ascendant in the postwar United States; the counterintuitive combination of factors shaping Mitscherlich's distinctive theorizing; and the many ironies in his delayed-reaction American reception in the 1990s and early 2000s, including in the unlikely realms of the turn-of-the-millennium “men's...

... of continuity rules, the staple of classical Hollywood film narration. Soviet montage theory emerged in an attempt to adjust continuity rules from American screenwriting manuals in the 1910s to discontinuous and extranarrative experiments in filmmaking by avant-garde directors. Contrast rather than continuity...

...Geoffrey Winthrop-Young This article traces the North American reception of “German media theory,” especially the work of Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011). The construction of Kittler's work abroad is marked by truncations and targeted appropriations related as much to the breaks and discontinuities...

...Robert Zwarg Critical theory has had an extraordinarily productive reception in the United States, most notably in journals like Telos and New German Critique . The article, based on a larger study, sketches the American reception of the Frankfurt School as (1) an attempt to come to grips...

...Sander L. Gilman The publication (and continued prominence) of Thilo Sarrazin's book Deutschland schafft sich ab ( Germany Does Away with Itself , 2010) illustrates how debates taking place in the American context affect other arguments about race in places such as Germany. The question of race...

... invasion in June 1941, in central Asia. Grossmann focuses on their struggle for survival and the extensive relief efforts organized in Teheran by the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) and other Jewish groups from the United States, Palestine, and the British Empire. This work sustained...

...Codruţa Morari Abstract The classical film western enacts the myth of American manifest destiny, codifying and promulgating stories of the conquest of the West. Subsequent so-called revisionist westerns, of which John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) is the preeminent example, call this triumphal master...

...Martin Woessner The cinematic works of the American director Terrence Malick offer historians a glimpse of the complex, ever-evolving network of intellectual transference that defines the contemporary era. Malick, who abandoned a career in philosophy for film, was profoundly influenced by Martin...

... of Cold War meeting between the Soviet constructivist relief models of Vladimir Tatlin or the experiments of Aleksandr Rodchenko and the appropriated consumerist detritus of American pop art (less the smooth serialized screen prints of Andy Warhol than the assemblages of Robert Rauschenberg or Edward...

... Goncourt. The author, an American, wrote the book in French. Many critics praised the novel, comparing it to War and Peace and other masterpieces, while others were quite hostile. In this essay I argue that Les bienveillantes accomplishes a rare, indeed a totally original, feat: representing a Nazi...

... Michael Althen, Claudius Seidl, and Andreas Kilb. They looked askance at the formal complexity and political activism of most art house fare and above all found themselves smitten by mainstream American features. Taking their cue from Susan Sontag and her essay “Against Interpretation,” these postmodern...

... the early 1920s, to American slapstick. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 Siegfried Kracauer film criticism Weimar cinema slapstick film theory When the Schumann-Großkino opened in 1923 as Germany’s largest cinema, among the spectators was a young man eager to make his...

...Martin Jay Miriam Hansen's studies of both American silent film and Frankfurt School film theory drew on the critique of Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere developed by Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge. Expanding it beyond the bourgeoisie and stressing the importance of experience as well...

... to his reflections on American writers and scholars in the final third of his career. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Gershom Scholem Kabbalah Sabbatai Sevi Jewish mysticism America References Abrams Daniel . 2000 . “Defining Modern Academic Scholarship: Gershom...

...-American scholarship, particularly in the history of film studies. The article situates the trope of anonymity at the heart of Kracauer's oeuvre, where it helps define a nonsovereign subject in response to modernity. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Siegfried Kracauer Critical Theory...

... a German to an American or Anglophone context particularly difficult. Looking at Paradigms for a Metaphorology and The Legitimacy of the Modern Age , the article examines the timing and framing of translation, as well as the unique difficulties that Blumenberg's work poses for the modern theory reader. ©...

...William Rasch Niklas Luhmann expressed puzzlement that his work was not well or extensively received in the Anglophone world, especially because he saw himself working within an American tradition characterized by cybernetics and scientific complexity theory. Yet the late twentieth-century...