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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. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 architecture housing functionalism New...
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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 (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 81–95.
Published: 01 August 2015
...George Kouvaros To look at something as if it were for the last time, as if the thing looked at were disappearing: this article considers what this attitude reveals about Wim Wenders's work in film and photography. For Wenders, photography has several overlapping functions: it is a medium with its...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2020
... having traditionally defined their work. What does it mean that writing on film is supposed to function as the “taste tester for cultural gastronomy” (Wolfram Schütte)? Do social media marginalize critical expertise? How does film criticism work under the omen of changing concepts of the public sphere...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
Published: 01 August 2016
... into Erpenbeck's account of efforts to make the place described a home and of its function as homeland. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 homeland dwelling nature aesthetics material ecocriticism References Anderson William . 1990 . Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness...
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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 (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 103–118.
Published: 01 August 2012
... simultaneously function as symptoms of a profound contemporary crisis: in mobilizing unaccommodated, unrealized, or taboo aspects of the GDR past, but also in presenting an aesthetic opportunity in that they “recall” the various intertexts they cite (from Hamlet to Karl Marx or the medieval danse macabre...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 135–153.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Clara M. Oberle This article reflects on the functioning of ideology by examining different modes in which the myths of antifascism and victimhood in the setting of Berlin during 1945–48 were formulated. Rather than debunk these myths, Oberle asks about the processes, places, and actors involved...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 41–64.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Anjeana K. Hans This article examines Artur Robison's 1923 film Schatten: Eine nächtliche Halluzination ( Warning Shadows ). Read against the backdrop of a cultural moment in which gender roles were rapidly changing, Warning Shadows functions as a response to the anxieties, fears, and desires...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 1–31.
Published: 01 February 2014
.... If the narrative of secularization still functions as a great narrative, its plausibility and evidence reside in this rhetorical fundament that cannot be reduced to a simple argument, whether historical, sociological, or theological, but instead combines these discourses in a highly overdetermined way. © 2014...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 93–120.
Published: 01 February 2014
... on Benjamin's essay on violence replaces the category and functions of divine violence with an amorphous conception of language. Under the category of “infinite language” recent commentators defend the very characteristics of formless totality that the essay on violence excoriates, and they do so as if Benjamin...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 189–201.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., and Volker Gerhardt, agree on the normative function of the public sphere in democratic theory, the scope of their determinations of this sphere varies from sociological transformation to anthropological structure. All theories, however, lack an adequate theorizing of the recent media transformation...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 47–65.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., cuts sooner than shots, form instead of function—such, among others, were parameters of style emphasized by Soviet montage theorists throughout the 1920s. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Talking to Miriam: Soviet Americanitis and
the Vernacular Modernism Thesis...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 159–169.
Published: 01 August 2014
... as discourse, Negt and Kluge attempted to reverse Habermas's pessimistic appraisal of the fate of the public sphere in the twentieth century. Challenging the too rapid dismissal of Habermas's stress on the communicatively rational function of the public sphere, this article questions the reliance...
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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 (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 123–144.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the case of Arendt, who understood the risks of veracity in the political realm, Blumenberg himself pursued uncomfortable truths wherever they led. By providing a reflective defense of the function of myth (along with metaphor) rather than its alleged meaning, he demonstrated his own unwillingness...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 155–178.
Published: 01 August 2018
... Biermann even after he was expelled from East Germany in 1976. This article assesses DDR PEN’s reactions to Biermann given its multiple functions as a representative of East German and Soviet bloc cultural diplomacy, an East German literary association hoping to protect some autonomous activity and free...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 155–174.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jakob Norberg Abstract In his writings on satire, the Marxist literary critic Georg Lukács argued that hatred could function as an anticapitalist affect. Hatred, he believed, equips the committed author with a set of traits—certainty, lucidity, endurance, and pitilessness—that are eminently useful...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., in Aesthetic Theory , by the interpretation of art’s truth content. While far from definitive, this conclusion does support interpretations of art’s truth content that foreground art’s function as a critique of ideology, that is, of having a field of application that moves beyond the sphere of the aesthetic...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 9–35.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and social theory. Attention to the systematics of Lukács’s earliest historical-transcendental criteria of literary form allows his genre poetics to be understood more flexibly than has often been assumed. The difference between novel and modern drama, for example, is not categorical but functions...
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