...Noam M. Elcott Unlike English or French, early twentieth-century German did not adopt a single term for “screen.” Instead, a range of terms—and practices—proliferated. This essay explores three terms and practices developed especially within avant-garde circles: Fläche (surface), Leinwand (canvas...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

..., 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...

...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...

... as Tragödie einer Uraufführung ( Tragedy of a World Premiere ). This film, about a distracted editor who mixes revue film and newsreel footage to produce an avant-garde montage film, hands authority over the film to the editor while suggesting that the film she has produced is simply a mistake. Situating...

... 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...

... Republic avant-garde abstraction utopia References Adorno Theodor W. 1973 . Negative Dialectics , translated by Ashton E. B. . London : Routledge . ———. 1997 . Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben. Vol. 4 of Gesammelte Schriften in zwanzig Bänden , edited...

... of Adorno’s unfinished, final book considers art’s progressive separation from any direct social function in the bourgeois era, advancing finally to the point where it has come to undermine itself. This is associated by Adorno with the anti-art provocations of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth...

... by the modernist avant-gardes, the architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri announced in 1976 that “the war is over.”1 Tafuri was evaluating various attempts to replay such moves by the neo- avant-gardes of the 1970s, mainly in the United States. And in a sense, he was right. His text, titled “The Ashes...

... postmodernism as an attempt to rewrite and to renegotiate key aspects of the early-twentieth- century European avant-gardes in an American context in which the rela- tions between high and low culture, as well as the role of art in society, were coded quite differently than they were in Europe, either...

.... 1 2 Introduction themes and sensibilities that, with the perseverance of Andreas and Miriam Hansen, became fundamental to the journal’s 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... . Gunning Tom . 1990 . “ The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator, and the Avant-Garde .” In Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative , edited by Elsaesser Thomas , 56 – 62 . London : British Film Institute . Gunning Tom . 1995 . “ An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film...

... for avant-garde film); the film editor for Der Standard Claus Philipp; and the avant-gardist and first head of the Diagonale Festival Peter Tscherkassky. 7 The ten- to fifteen-page articles expressly approach the films from an aesthetic viewpoint. They offer close readings of individual works...

... 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...

...,” 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...