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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 171–188.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Weihong Bao This article revisits Miriam Hansen's theory of vernacular modernism by putting it in dialogue with wartime Chongqing propaganda film theory. Comparing key points of parallel between Hansen's dual interest in the linguistic and sensorial function of cinema and Chongqing propaganda film...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 111–124.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Mary Ann Doane Miriam Hansen's work consistently contests the “linguistic turn” of structuralism, poststructuralism, and 1970s film theory. Yet the trope of language seems to return incessantly in her critical discourse as a privileged object of analysis—the concept of a universal language...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 77–107.
Published: 01 February 2024
... attempt to associate film and literature and thereby develop an alternative concept to the European cinéma des auteurs . To this end, the essay discusses not only Andersch’s critical writings but also a number of documents from his estate. Andersch’s film theory is evaluated in light of the contemporary...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
... theory now. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 film theory embodiment politics In cultural philosophy, this chicken-and-egg discussion turns on questions of the nature of Aristotelian prime matter, and the extent to which matter as such exists prior to its actualization...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 159–169.
Published: 01 August 2014
...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...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2024
...—feminist theory of montage as disruption that hinges on unruly women workers. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 Weimar cinema gendered labor montage film editing Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat/Tragödie einer Uraufführung Dziga Vertov’s...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 47–65.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Yuri Tsivian The history of editing as sketched in this article examines the theory of vernacular modernism proposed by Miriam Hansen in 1999. Taking stock of physical, optical, and temporal limitations imposed by the medium of film on actors, playwrights, and directors leads to a system...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 3–6.
Published: 01 August 2014
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4 Dossier on Cinema and Experience
book on “Frankfurt” film theory was destined for change. How was one, in
view of this significant shift, to situate the cinema experience...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 20–28.
Published: 01 August 2014
... the context of film studies.
Anton Kaes: I believe that Miriam’s ultimate project was to use the writings
of “The Other Frankfurt School,” as Cinema and Experience was originally
titled, to reflect on larger questions about the function and status of critical
theory, history, and modern media. Miriam...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-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...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
... concepts into ones that could be made serviceable for Marxism. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 film theory race in film Walter Benjamin physiognomy Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss References Balázs Béla . 1970 . Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art . New York...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 9–11.
Published: 01 August 2014
... and Experience exemplifies Miriam Hansen’s lifelong endeavor to
historicize theory and theorize history. An inspiring model for historical work
in film theory, her book revisits canonical texts by Siegfried Kracauer, Walter
Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno in light of the present. How do their writ-
ings...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2020
... newspapers and journals, the diverse writers and texts discussed in this dossier retain their timeliness. Having once held a prominent place in wider debates over film theory and writing on motion pictures more generally, they now have, in their new guise and in an English-language venue, the chance...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 141–172.
Published: 01 February 2020
... as a variation of the Balinese teleologies of trance. Inwards (Nazi Germany): The common ground for the comparability between Nazi German tic and Balinese clonus lies in Bateson’s media theory. It might be helpful for the reader’s understanding to preface the citation of the respective passage in his film...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 12–14.
Published: 01 August 2014
... experience of cinema.
What surprised me more than anything else was the collective character of her
initial encounters with film and film theory. Miriam discovered cinema as a
member of a group. The public sphere she continually wrote about was not an
abstract concept but a frame for the shifting...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 125–144.
Published: 01 August 2014
... and Walter
Benjamin. Kracauer’s concept of “surface” and Benjamin’s notion of “play,”
for example, which Miriam Hansen analyzes so brilliantly,3 have unexpected
precursors in the prewar debates. The technoromantic outlook manifests itself
not only in theory but also in film practice. Even at the time...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 29–34.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., Adorno, and Benjamin.
Gertrud Koch: Cinema and Experience makes a significant contribution to
the history of ideas: it is essential reading for anyone interested in film theory
and its genesis. A landmark text, Miriam’s meticulous study examines theory
in its historical context, but without...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... not ascribe to film as film negative qualities, possibly diminishing his reflective capacities. The dispute about the difference between mass art and high art is taken back to the emergence of the notion of culture industry as replacement for mass art in the frame of social theory. Comparing the different...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 67–98.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of Minnesota Press . Aitken Ian . 2012 . Lukácsian Film Theory and Cinema: A Study of Georg Lukács’ Writings on Film, 1913–1971 . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Alt Peter-André . 2009 . Kafka und der Film: Über kinematographisches Erzählen . Munich : Beck...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 159–178.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Traudl Junge, and the families of Nazi perpetrators. Drawing on theories of shame developed by Emmanuel Lévinas (1935) and Ruth Leys (2007), it demonstrates how these films perform a move away from guilt in the juridical or moral sense and toward shame as an exposure of the psychological and emotional...
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