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Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Eva Horn
New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 127–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-022
Published: 01 February 2008
...Eva Horn New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Eva Horn To a large extent, the history of conspiracies has been a history of media, not only...
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Between Benjamin and McLuhan: Vilém Flusser's Media Theory

Sjoukje van der Meulen
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 180–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-010
Published: 01 August 2010
...Sjoukje van der Meulen This essay introduces the seminal work of the Czech media theorist Vilém Flusser (1920–91) for an English-speaking public, such as Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie ( Towards a Philosophy of Photography , 1983) and Ins Universum der technischen Bilder ( Into the Universe...
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Miriam Hansen's Preface and Epilogue: Mourning and Media

Tom Gunning
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 35–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2680927
Published: 01 August 2014
... to the cinematic image than absorption or enthrallment. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Miriam Hansen’s Preface and Epilogue: Mourning and Media Tom Gunning This has been a difficult essay to write. For me, as for most critics, writing depends...
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On Self-Construction in Social Media: A Response to D’Ambrosio and Moeller

Roberto Simanowski
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 27–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7613242
Published: 01 August 2019
... monetizes its users’ data and attention. Here one normally would tackle issues such as algorithmic economy, consumer profiling, and behavioral targeting. Another typical sort of social media critique would aim at the sociopsychological effect of self-presentation and identity construction in the context...
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Film Criticism in Germany Today: A Report on Practice

Claudia Lenssen
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 59–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607591
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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The Kittler Effect

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 205–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4162322
Published: 01 November 2017
...Geoffrey Winthrop-Young This article traces the North American reception of “German media theory,” especially the work of Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011). The construction of Kittler's work abroad is marked by truncations and targeted appropriations related as much to the breaks and discontinuities...
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The Image of Lucretia: On the Creation of Republican Charisma in Livy

Friedrich Balke
New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 35–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1340030
Published: 01 November 2011
...Friedrich Balke At the end of book 1 of Ab urbe condita , Livy presents a paradigmatic case of an individual's rise to power and his ability to focus a community's actions and goals around himself. Analyzing the media and semiotic processes employed in this process, charisma can be described...
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Tremor, Tick, and Trance: Siegfried Kracauer and Gregory Bateson in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art

Frederic Ponten
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 141–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908420
Published: 01 February 2020
...Frederic Ponten Abstract This article details the brief collaboration between Siegfried Kracauer and Gregory Bateson in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art during World War II as an intriguing episode in intellectual history, touching on film and media studies, anthropology, and German...
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Mabuse Returns: Fritz Lang, 1950s Berlin, and the Afterlife of Nazi Television

Brook Henkel
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 161–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734861
Published: 01 August 2022
..., the article reconstructs the film’s interconnections with critical discourses on the afterlife of fascist terror, authoritarianism, and irrationality in postwar urban space, media, and astrology. It demonstrates further the importance of rereading Lang, and cinema in general, in close relation to other media...
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Virtual Ignorance: The Blind Spot in German Public Sphere Theory

Lukas Kaelin
New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 189–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2824273
Published: 01 February 2015
...Lukas Kaelin The public sphere stands at the center of much of the philosophical, sociological, political science, and media theory discourse on the organization and legitimation of society. Although the latest German-speaking public sphere theories, in particular from Jürgen Habermas, Kurt Imhof...
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Baroque out of Focus: The Question of Mediation in Wölfflin

Zeynep Çelik Alexander
New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 79–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4269862
Published: 01 February 2018
...Zeynep Çelik Alexander This essay contributes to an expanding literature around the terms medium , media , and mediation by offering a historical point of contact between the philosophical and technical genealogies of this constellation of terms. In his theory of the baroque, Heinrich Wölfflin...
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Searching for a Storyteller, Remediating the Archive: Philip Scheffner’s Halfmoon Files

Olivia Landry
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 103–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7727441
Published: 01 November 2019
... in early twentieth-century German history. By way of the figure of the storyteller, read intertextually with Walter Benjamin, this article explores Scheffner’s film as the site of the collision of history and media, where materials of the past come alive in the present through remediation, through which...
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Hildebrand Gurlitt and His Dealings with German Museums During the “Third Reich”

Meike Hoffmann
New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 35–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3705685
Published: 01 February 2017
...Meike Hoffmann With the unexpected discovery of the “Munich Art Trove” in November 2013, the name of Hildebrand Gurlitt became famous overnight through media stories around the world. Spanning four periods of German history, Gurlitt started as an art historian in the late-period German Reich...
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Apology and Triumph: Memory Transference, Erasure, and a Rereading of the Berlin Jewish Museum

Esra Akcan
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 153–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-009
Published: 01 August 2010
...; the building's location in a city undergoing an urban renewal program; and its reception in academic, professional, and public media during the competition, after it was built, and after September 11. The shift from triumphalist to apologetic memorials during the late Cold War era reflects the growing need...
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Gender and Terror in Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 and Don DeLillo's “Baader-Meinhof”

Karin L. Crawford
New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 207–230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-006
Published: 01 August 2009
... out to the viewer rests on a powerful realization of subjectivity that necessarily moves through a momentary consideration of uncomfortable questions regarding women, the mass-media image, and terrorism. © 2009 by New German Critique, Inc. 2009 I would like to thank the editors...
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Resonating Trauma: Framing Conflicting Memories of the Entebbe Hostage Crisis

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 91–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546185
Published: 01 August 2019
... attacks on German theaters, the article describes the framing as alternating and conflicting and emphasizes the relationship of history, media, and memory. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 terrorism Holocaust Israel docudrama media cinema To communicate, understand...
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Alexander Kluge’s Installations

Tara Hottman
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 57–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908378
Published: 01 February 2020
... to continue developing but also revise practices he first engaged in other media. The so-called white-cube exhibition space presents Kluge’s earlier works in terms of remediation and provides him with an opportunity to employ and reconceptualize his approach to montage techniques and reception aesthetics...
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Intellectual Promiscuity: Cultural History in the Age of the Cinema, the Network, and the Database

Sabine Haenni
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2680846
Published: 01 August 2014
... in the twenty-first century by allowing us to frame in new ways research objects and research questions in the age of proliferating media platforms and proliferating archives—in the age of the network and the database. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Intellectual Promiscuity: Cultural History...
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A “Schooling of the Senses”: Post-Dada Visual Experiments in the Bauhaus Photomontages of László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt

Elizabeth Otto
New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 89–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-003
Published: 01 August 2009
... photographic fragments in a montage might engage viewers in a new way. In addition, Moholy-Nagy's and Brandt's photomontages resituate the mass media's representations of New Women and frequently create representations of the figure of the constructor, a hybrid technician-artist that each artist sought...
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The Politics of Longevity: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Essayism and the Art of Outliving Oneself

Adrian Daub
New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 137–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2325455
Published: 01 November 2013
...Adrian Daub Since the 1970s the German filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg has produced a series of highly unusual essay films and written lengthy diatribes promoting and defending them. This article reads Syberberg's essayistic output across media as a project of calculated self-delegitimation, which...
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