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The Ends of (German) Film Criticism: On Recurring Doomsday Scenarios and the New Algorithmic Culture
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 45–57.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Mattias Frey Abstract A prominent strain of discourse sees digital-age German film criticism in a terminal trajectory of commercialization and dumbing down. This article demonstrates that this rhetoric is not unique: neither to German-speaking countries nor to the digital age. Complaints about...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 73–91.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Fatima Naqvi Abstract Film criticism helped constitute what is now called New Austrian Cinema. This article looks at “short form” criticism in edited volumes and emerging journals that worked to establish this cinema’s coherence and prestige. The virtuous cycle inaugurated in the 1990s—when critics...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2020
... publications were initially established— Filmkritik (criticism, historiography, all manner of cultural discourse on cinema) has been a prized form of expression, a thriving intellectual, journalistic, and professional enterprise. More limited in scope at the start, it quickly blossomed during the Wilhelmine...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Claudia Lenssen Abstract As traditional media in Germany have lost their relevance in the digital age, so has the perpetually embattled authority of film criticism diminished. The article addresses current debates about the state of criticism while critics are confronting the collapse of the media...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 143–167.
Published: 01 February 2017
..., they have become socially irrelevant. In a more redemptive gesture, Worringer then proposes that sensuous criticism of past art will replace art itself, since criticism now channels Germany's creative energy and serves the former social functions of art. This article historically contextualizes this new...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Eric Rentschler Abstract The often bemoaned crisis of West German cinema in the 1980s coincided with a dramatic changing of the nation’s film critical guard. The symptomatic impetus that had figured so strongly during the postwar era gave way to the so-called new subjectivism of young critics like...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 85–110.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the function and itinerary of “serious” criticism. This lacuna includes the position and role of Filmkritik . The leading German cinephile magazine was founded to create a “legitimate” postwar German film criticism against prevailing “impressionism,” but within a decade it had transformed from an organ...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 29–34.
Published: 01 August 2014
... its position within contemporary film and visual studies. © 2014 by Gertrud Koch 2014 Redemptive Criticism:
A Conversation with Gertrud Koch
Gertrud Koch and Simon Rothöhler
Simon Rothöhler: Miriam Hansen’s Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kra-
cauer, Walter...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 67–82.
Published: 01 August 2014
... criteria, largely oriented around the idea of play (with the medium, with other films, with history, etc.), from actual instances of translation. Though Hansen herself does not make this act of criticism explicit, recognizing its presence in fact grounds vernacular modernism more emphatically, and more...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
Published: 01 February 2020
...” replaces reality after the end of the “critical age.” 71. On the concept and practice of “fake-interviews,” see Lutze, “Alexander Kluge und das Projekt der Moderne,” 24–28 . 72. See Hansen, “Fictional Experts.” 73. Ruchatz, “Interview-Authentizität für die literarische Celebrity,” 47...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 75–103.
Published: 01 August 2017
... on the economic and psychoanalytic aspects and concludes that Critical Theory remained too close to traditional Marxism to generate more profound insights into the nature of fascism, especially with regard to its political features. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Frankfurt School Marxism...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 171–195.
Published: 01 August 2019
... conception of history and simplistic binaries of good versus evil. Their works stage perpetrator documents in their entirety, without commentary. In this way they participate in the turn away from the “hermeneutics of suspicion” toward an affirmative critical practice. Without an interpretive “safety net...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
Published: 01 November 2020
... ) both in architectural critiques for the Frankfurter Zeitung and in his novel Ginster . This article analyzes Kracauer’s critical contribution to the modernist housing debate in the Weimar Republic. 73. For a historical survey and comprehensive documentation, see Steinmann, C. I. A. M. 74...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 225–240.
Published: 01 November 2017
...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...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 9–35.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of form with the tradition of Marxist criticism and theory, as exemplified in Fredric Jameson’s landmark 1971 study, Marxism and Form (featuring Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre). But what may not be as well known is that this Marxist...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 1–25.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of “losing themselves,” as the subtitle to Facebook Society warns us. 7 First, we believe that Simanowski’s three concepts all reflect an authenticity-based value system. The notions of an instant and episodic self critically imply that self-reflectiveness and self-coherence are in danger of being...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 5–24.
Published: 01 November 2023
... vulnerabilities that emerged from historical encounters between media and critique, ideology and epistemology, and the Frankfurt School and the Kittler Network. To update German media studies in a critical mode, we need to keep defining our concepts and delimiting our disciplines, accounting for the effects...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 81–106.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of Social Research he accentuated the unequal power recourses of conflicting social groups and different institutional mechanisms to deal with these conflicts politically. This approach made his work interesting for authors of a later generation of Critical Theory like Jürgen Habermas and Claus Offe. 10...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Mathijs Peters Abstract This article focuses on the role that the notion of temporality can and should play in the tradition of Critical Theory. Following an overview of the critical analyses of time found in the works of Marx, Lukács, Weber, Adorno, Fromm, and Marcuse, the article analyzes Hartmut...
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