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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 207–245.
Published: 01 February 2018
... these with the literary reportage style of Egon Erwin Kisch. Its similarity to Der Querschnitt reveals the dialectical engagement of Berlin’s artist and journalist circles with mass cultural forms, including tourism. While guidebooks diversified to accommodate a modern “art-loving” demographic that ridiculed both...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 67–82.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Daniel Morgan Miriam Hansen's idea of vernacular modernism explains the global appeal of classical Hollywood cinema by drawing on its affinity with modernist aesthetics. She argues that cinema's modernism is part of a widespread mass culture response to the changing features of modern life...
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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 (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 107–129.
Published: 01 February 2025
... for a mass audience. More recently, a crop of new films does something radically different. This essay tracks Jewish revenge plots in contemporary German film. Films such as Ende der Schonzeit ( Closed Season , dir. Franziska Schlotterer, 2012), Winterjagd ( Winter Hunt , dir. Astrid Schult, 2017), Masel Tov...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 1–40.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Michael Cowan The Querschnittfilm (cross-section film) has long been recognized as a documentary genre appropriate to mass society that uses montage, not the narrative development of individual characters, to compare various people and phenomena. But the term and concept of Querschnitt had both...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 153–180.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of a political and social mass movement lie the historiographical, poetological, and broader literary and cultural theoretical challenges that this kind of world literature poses for today’s study of the literatures of an entangled and stratified global modernity. 2 Approaching this historical context...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 51–78.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of “omnidirectional” disorientations in translation, the article argues that Petrowskaja’s entangled remembering of the mass violence and state terror of the twentieth century can be described as a translational transnationalism attentive to multiple localities, histories, and memory cultures in Europe...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2013
... remnant of bourgeois individualism
that has not been completely tainted by the ersatz individuals mass-produced
by monopoly capitalistic practices such as the culture industry. At the very end
43. Although Schoenberg’s path to the problem may have ended at an impasse, perhaps there
are other...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 167–196.
Published: 01 February 2019
... for deeply embedding the self in an ambivalent historical context in which coherent subjectivity is impossible. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Siegfried Kracauer Ernst Jünger mass culture criticism World War I In October 1932 Siegfried Kracauer publishes a book review...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 6–8.
Published: 01 August 2014
... on Walter Benjamin’s theory of mass culture.
Whether she was focusing on the most detailed differences in the variants of
the artwork essay, or the corporeal significance of Mickey Mouse, Miriam
could penetrate to incredible depths of understanding. It was slow-motion
scholarship. She made...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 1–2.
Published: 01 August 2014
...
In September 2012 New German Critique held a conference at Columbia Uni-
versity titled “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory,” dedicated to the
memory of Miriam Hansen and her seminal work in film history, theory, and
the politics of mass culture and the public sphere. The conference brought...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 1–4.
Published: 01 August 2009
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ocation through the language of mass culture.
Focusing on different phases of Heartfi eld’s work, these fi rst two essays
show how Heartfi eld mobilizes an allegedly unpolitical cinematic animation
and the principle of illusionistic suture for subversive purposes, mass-cultural...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 189–207.
Published: 01 February 2007
... understanding but crucial for my argument about
subliminal links between modernism and cultural globalization today.
The cultural space that modernism inhabited was divided into high and
low, into elite culture and an increasingly commercialized mass culture. Mod-
ernism was by and large the attempt...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 1–3.
Published: 01 February 2006
... One Live after Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Rod-
ney Livingstone et al. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003).
4. See Miriam Hansen, “Mass Culture as ‘Hieroglyphic Writing’: Adorno, Derrida, Kracauer,”
New German Critique, no. 56 (1992): 43–75...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 149–174.
Published: 01 February 2013
... contribution made by the editors of the journal, which
has uncompromisingly, intelligently, and critically argued for a more balanced and refined under -
standing of Adorno. On the important distinctions between “popular culture,” “mass culture,” and the
“culture industry” in Adorno (and Horkheimer), see...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 143–171.
Published: 01 February 2024
... the boundaries between static images and moving ones and between vernacular imagery and art photographs. Uklański’s projects thus not only address the mass-cultural inflation and glamourization of Nazi iconography and the persistence of fascism. They also engage in a dialogue about the relationship between still...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 209–233.
Published: 01 November 2006
... director Glenn D. Lowry argued that
the once-rarifi ed institution of the art museum had become a mass cultural phe-
nomenon. “Once seen as elite, these institutions enjoy broad, popular appeal,”
he claimed.1 The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis was just as emphatic in
promoting its $80 million...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 99–118.
Published: 01 February 2010
... Early Writings on Film and Mass Culture,” New German Cri-
tique, no. 54 (1991): 47–76; hereafter cited as DP.
New German Critique 109, Vol. 37, No. 1, Winter 2010
DOI 10.1215/0094033X-2009-019 © 2010 by New German Critique, Inc.
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
Published: 01 November 2020
... only avant-garde mass rally in the Weimar Republic that deserved this name. The Deutscher Werkbund was founded in 1907 by leading representatives of politics, industry, trade, and the arts as an official interest group for the massive reform of culture and society through rationalized architecture...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 1–2.
Published: 01 February 2012
... and the Department of Cinema
and Media Studies, which she had founded, shaped, and guided since 1990.
From early on Miriam was a major mediator between the study of
American film and the Frankfurt School theories of the public sphere, media,
and mass culture. Pivotal for her work on early American silent...
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