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Talking to Miriam: Soviet Americanitis and the Vernacular Modernism Thesis

Yuri Tsivian
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 47–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2680936
Published: 01 August 2014
... 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...
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Brains: Forms of Life in Gottfried Benn’s Rönne Novellas

Andreas Gailus
New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6684118
Published: 01 August 2018
...Andreas Gailus Abstract The literary writings of the young Gottfried Benn are replete with images of anatomical dismemberment and biological decay while pushing the limits of linguistic expression. The article suggests that this confluence of naturalism and avant-garde experimentation is the result...
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Montage as Weapon: The Tactical Alliance between Willi Münzenberg and John Heartfield

Cristina Cuevas-Wolf
New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 185–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-005
Published: 01 August 2009
... Europe and this avant-garde artist led to the fusion of the international reputation of Heartfield's photomontages and of Münzenberg's Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung ( AIZ ) in 1929. Consequently, Münzenberg formed a transnational network that relied unintentionally on the various publishers...
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Class Relations: Diagnoses of the Present in the Films of Julian Radlmaier and Max Linz

Volker Pantenburg
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 53–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7727413
Published: 01 November 2019
... the cinema of the Berlin School. Amalgamating various German and international influences, from Christoph Schlingensief, Alexander Kluge, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Linz) to Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the classical avant-gardes of the 1920s (Radlmaier), their student shorts and feature...
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Urban, Historical, and Musical Loops: László Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Kluge, and the City Symphony Film

Sabine Haenni
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 81–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908392
Published: 01 February 2020
...Sabine Haenni Abstract Focusing on Alexander Kluge’s short film Chicago im Zeitraffer ( Chicago in Time Lapse ), this article inserts his work with moving images into a larger genealogy of the city symphony film. Elucidating his relationship with the historical cinematic avant-garde, as Kluge...
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Modernism Reconsidered: The Kultur-Zivilisation Dichotomy in the Work of Adolf Rading

Deborah Ascher Barnstone
New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 39–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-010
Published: 01 November 2009
..., Gesellschaft versus Gemeinschaft , traditional versus modern, rural versus urban, handicraft versus machine-made. But many important architects, like Adolf Rading in Breslau, who were considered members of the avant-garde did not fully accept or reject modernizing tendencies but embraced modernization...
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Out of Tune: Music, Postwar Politics, and Edgar Reitz's Die zweite Heimat

Ulrich Schönherr
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 107–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-007
Published: 01 August 2010
...Ulrich Schönherr The year 1960 marks the point of departure for Edgar Reitz's twenty-five-hour movie Die zweite Heimat ( The Second Homeland ), which tries to reconstruct ten years of German history from the selective perspective of young avant-garde artists in Munich. In contrast to critics who...
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Hermann Glöckner: Waste as a Figure of Thought?

Sarah E. James
New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 169–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3705748
Published: 01 February 2017
... monuments to the memory of a tabooed and increasingly marginalized avant-garde. They seem to provide a domesticated means of survival for a modernist and formalist aesthetic aggressively condemned by the state. Rediscovered in Glöckner’s Dresden studio during preparation for a 2009 exhibition...
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The Angels of Accumulated Suffering

Matthew Noble-Olson
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 217–246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288209
Published: 01 August 2020
... . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 1991 . Bürger Peter . Theory of the Avant-Garde , translated by Shaw Michael . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1984 . Cachopo João Pedro . “ Truth and Enigma: Adorno and the Politics of Art .” New German Critique , no. 135 ( 2018...
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The Last War: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

Reinhold Martin
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 63–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-011
Published: 01 November 2006
...Reinhold Martin The Last War: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again Reinhold Martin Referring to the “checkmate” performed by advanced capitalism despite the Shklov skian “knightʼs moves” attempted by the modernist avant-gardes...
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Introduction: Modernism after Postmodernity

Andreas Huyssen
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-008
Published: 01 November 2006
... of the modern and the postmodern. Rather than oppose postmodernism to modernism in a reductive binary or as separate stages on a progressive time line, we saw North American postmodernism as an attempt to rewrite and to renegotiate key aspects of the early-twentieth- century European avant-gardes...
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Introduction

David Bathrick, Anson Rabinbach
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-001
Published: 01 August 2010
... purpose. Our concern from the very outset had focused on the “historical avant-garde” of the 1920s and 1930s, seeing in the political and cultural implications of the Brecht-Lukács debate—as well as in the theoretical critiques of orthodox cultural Marxism in the writings of such thinkers...
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Aestheticization and the Shoah: Heimrad Bäcker's transcript

Patrick Greaney
New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 27–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-016
Published: 01 February 2010
... consists almost exclusively of quotations from documents related to the planning and execution of the National Socialist murder of Euro- pean Jewry. Bäcker’s work belongs to a vibrant tradition of postwar avant- garde writing in Austria, and nachschrift is also indebted to the international movement...
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The Last Dwelling before the Last: Siegfried Kracauer’s Critical Contribution to the Modernist Housing Debate in Weimar Germany

Hans-Georg von Arburg
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607633
Published: 01 November 2020
... for the Frankfurter Zeitung , Kracauer welcomed the progressive trend of this early manifesto of international avant-garde architecture, in particular its vision to provide sufficient living space for the entire population through the typification, standardization, and prefabrication of modern housing. Nevertheless...
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Kafka’s Animations: Trick Films, Narrative, Reification

Brook Henkel
New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 67–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6684153
Published: 01 August 2018
... and part of a broader modernist and avant-garde engagement with the subversive aesthetic potential of animation across various media. Georg Lukács’s 1911 article, “Gedanken zu einer Aesthetik des ‘Kino’” (“Thoughts toward an Aesthetic of the Cinema”), first published in Budapest in the German-language...
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Kakanian Flyspecks: Film Criticism in Austria since the 1990s

Fatima Naqvi
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 21–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607549
Published: 01 November 2020
... the Hamburg professor of media studies Knut Hickethier; the German critic, actor, and screenwriter Dietrich Kuhlbrodt; the critic-scholars Georg Seeßlen and Isabella Reicher (later of sixpackfilm, a distribution company for avant-garde film); the film editor for Der Standard Claus Philipp; and the avant...
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Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance

Kai Evers, Julia Hell, Seth Howes
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965276
Published: 01 November 2022
... available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Peter Weiss hallucinatory realism avant-garde Edward Said poetics of reception Decades apart, the initial receptions of The Aesthetics of Resistance in Germany and the United States are marked...
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Aesthetics, Masses, Gender: Anna Seghers's Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara

Christoph Schaub
New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2824261
Published: 01 February 2015
...,” in Neue Sachlichkeit im Roman: Neue Interpretationen zum Roman der Weimarer Republik, ed. Sabina Becker and Christoph Weiss (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1995), 15; and Jaap Goedege- buure, “New Objectivity, Realism, and Avant-garde,” in The Turn of the Century: Modernism and Modernity in Literature...
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Sound Biopolitics: Modernist Music and Degeneration in the Wilhelmine Empire

Jonathan Gentry
New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 201–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3860261
Published: 01 August 2017
... Musical Culture, 1850–1910.” PhD diss. , Brown University . Gilman Sander L. 1988 . “Strauss, the Pervert, and the Avant Garde Opera of the Fin de Siècle.” New German Critique , no. 2 : 35 – 68 . Göhler Georg . 1907 . “Richard Strauss.” Die Zukunft 15 , no. 2 : 98 – 112...
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Secret Signals from Another World: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Innervation

Matthew Charles
New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 39–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6977791
Published: 01 November 2018
... , if one may so speak,” and attributes the rediscovery of this realm to Freud. 8 As in Margaret Cohen’s Profane Illumination , Benjamin’s sought-after interpenetration of body and image is therefore understood, in a context determined largely by familiarity with the French avant-garde, as a synthesis...
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