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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 73–91.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the early 1920s, to American slapstick. 2. The translations below draw on Kracauer’s collected writings ( Werke , vol. 6), including the detailed critical apparatus. The translator gratefully acknowledges the editors’ filmographic research and careful annotations, which form the basis for the notes...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 47–65.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., and slapstick comedies that, Tsivian argues, were actually more
influential during the transitional years. If the former kind of Americanism aspired to formal stan-
dards of narrative efficiency, coherence, and motivation, the latter was concerned with external
appearance, the sensual, material surface...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2024
... a comedic, slapstick version of the femme fatale, whose “textual eradication involves a desperate reassertion of control on the part of the threatened male subject,” the film editor in Filmkleberin will almost certainly be disciplined or fired. 60 The film’s final intertitle, “Aus!” (“Finished...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 145–157.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of slapstick is ‘to perform games in
the material dimension the “leitmotif of slapstick comedy is the play with danger, with catastro-
phe, and its prevention just in the nick of time ” (CE, 264). And just as Spiel appears as the sign of
alliance between those two figures, so too, when it comes...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 67–82.
Published: 01 August 2014
...-
tion? If so, vernacular modernism would then describe work that did take
place, and nothing more—and if a film, genre, or national cinema missed its
opportunity, there is not much more to be said. But that cannot be right; more
is at stake. Hansen, after all, wants to talk about slapstick...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 65–84.
Published: 01 February 2011
... Jewish points of view; Joseph
Vilsmaier’s slapstick parody of the Nazis; and Wessel’s contention that Hit-
ler’s war on Europe finally caught up with German populations in the East.
This message, incidentally, resonates with the DVD commentary on Dresden:
that the German trauma of bombardment...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 5–51.
Published: 01 August 2009
... animated features among them were the Mutt and Jeff cartoons, a series
created by Charles Bowers and distributed throughout Germany by the Scala
and Flora Film companies in mid-1917.61 Mutt and Jeff was drawn with partic-
ularly high quality for the time, using slapstick action, exaggerated gesture...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 167–196.
Published: 01 February 2019
...-garde, can foster salutary intellection only if they reflect the aleatory experiential mode of the spectator. Interpreting Kracauer’s feuilleton film reviews, Hansen shows that film structures are at their best when they are loose and arbitrary: preferred examples include American slapstick comedies...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 119–147.
Published: 01 February 2009
..., Chaplin’s slapstick comedies—his
Groteskfi lme (“grotesque fi lmsseek the same effects that the avant-garde
artists of the earlier dada movement wanted to achieve.
Whereas Benjamin’s work has distinctly teleological overtones, such
issues did not infl uence Friedländer.29 Max Pensky suggests...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 83–95.
Published: 01 August 2014
... deeper into the detritus of film culture than Hansen’s
references to more well-regarded genres of slapstick or melodrama, and beyond
Mickey Mouse and auteurist films by Charlie Chaplin or Frank Tashlin.6 But I
contend that the pliancy of the term sanctions a discussion of the Dead End
Kids...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
Published: 01 August 2014
... experience with modern
technology and the emergence of the urban masses.”14 They reveal a much
bigger focus on slapstick and horror, which can be understood as “phenomena
that demolish consciousness,” and are symptomatic of a cinema that has the
capacity to “assault the boundaries of an ostensibly...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 83–119.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and down
the bank. So thoroughly has he been pampered by his optimistic views that
he no longer wants to have anything whole, with all of natureʼs cruelty attach-
ing to it” (113). Kafka lets this dramatic image return as a slapstick scene:
I got up and in hectic leaps I zigzagged over...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 171–191.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of speculation.
The solution comes in a sort of deus ex machina slapstick solution.
Zinos, now estranged from Nadine, nevertheless convinces her to lend him
two hundred thousand euros. He races to the auction just in time. But Herr
Jung bids exactly two hundred thousand euros. The shipbuilder Socrates...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 53–78.
Published: 01 November 2019
... with the shorter films, Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog also displays several layers of humor. The self-staging of the main actor allows Radlmaier to perform slapstick-like physical comedy. One sees this in the deranged movements of the director, who stumbles over himself in hopes of having a romantic...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 141–163.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to kill him, if a stranger” (AGL, 606, 14). Whereas Twain provoked hilarity, the reactions elicited by Khider’s Botschaft were decidedly mixed. While many readers understood the “irony signals” ( die Ironiesignale ) and appreciated the “very smart slapstick” ( ein sehr kluger Klamauk ), others...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 207–233.
Published: 01 November 2019
... elevator, Abwärts ( Out of Order , 1984), would have a much harder time of it across the ocean. In the meantime German genre films, with the notable exception of romantic and slapstick comedies, were increasingly migrating to television, with only a limited palette of possibility. Public TV channels...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 67–98.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... In short, the episode seems directly pulled from the early cinematic world of slapstick and chase scenes. 23 Kafka’s stories can be understood as part of this avant-garde response to early film, but with some important distinctions. While Döblin’s and Marinetti’s animations draw on the shock...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 1–31.
Published: 01 August 2008
... for their mummy. What else could they do in
this age of global transmission than seek their umbilical cord—“all you need
is love.” In this slapstick fi lm, to seek a mummy is also a project of archae-
ology, which, apart from its obvious colonialist thematic, is about bringing
meaning back to New York’s...
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A Natural History of Modernity: Bernhard Grzimek and the Globalization of Environmental Kulturkritik
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 55–82.
Published: 01 August 2016
...,
the two lanky and underdressed scientists appear completely out of place
among Léopoldville high society, and the slapstick auto scenes of the mechan-
ically inept pair’s adventures in a leased Ford truck along Central Africa’s
muddy roads—including a complete tumble outside a small village—were...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... 46 I want to push this line of argument and suggest that Benn’s parody unmasks the biopolitics of scientific reductionism. The slapstick discussion of Rönne’s colleagues about avocados and “the dangers of tropical fruit” ridicules not just bourgeois thought but also the presumed scienticity...
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