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Breaking bad, breaking out, breaking even
\"Breaking Bad is known for its grim and gritty outbursts of anger and violence. In the chaotic story of a meth-dealing high school chemistry teacher, time seems to collapse, and we feel as though the lives of the characters are moving inevitably closer to their ends. This warped perspective wends its way through virtually every aspect of the story, intensifying the meaning we attach to the characters' precarious lives. Hoping to cultivate a deeper understanding of the series, Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even offers a new way of approaching its course though its complex treatment of time. With its grotesque portrayal of life on the brink of death, argues Gertrud Koch, we can best view Breaking Bad as a black comedy between Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and film noir. Koch takes readers through the ways in which this is accomplished through the show's various visual elements and masterful temporal and narrative structuring.\"--Publisher's website.
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Inszenierungen der Politik: Der Korper als Medium
Inszenierungen der Politik - Der Korper als Medium untersucht die Beziehungen zwischen Kor-per, Asthetik und Politik, die so-wohl im eindeutigen Bereich des Politischen, als auch im schein-bar Unpolitischen zu finden sind. In der mittelalterlichen Symbolik, in der Inszenierung von Ludwig XIV. oder in Zeiten von Wahl-kampagnen - die asthetischen Darstellungen des Korpers stan-den immer im Mittelpunkt der politischen Reprasentation. Kor-perinszenierungen tragen zu utopischen Entwurfen, gesell-schaftlicher Normierung und Mythoskonstruktionen bei. Sie bieten Projektionsflachen fur Identitatswunsche, Sehnsuchte und Angste, die von politischen Visualisierungsstrategien mobili-siert werden konnen. Der Band knupft an die breite Diskussion uber die Asthetisierung von Politik und uber die Rolle des Korpers in der politischen Repra-sentation an und eroffnet einen interdisziplinaren Dialog uber die Bedeutung des Korpers fur politi-sche Praktiken und Diskurse.
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Siegfried Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naïve realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But he is most widely thought of as the odd uncle of famed Frankfurt School critical theorists Jürgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Max Horkheimer. Recently, however, scholars have rediscovered in Kracauer's writings a philosopher, sociologist, and film theorist important beyond his associations--and perhaps one of the most significant cultural critics of the twentieth century. Gertrud Koch advances this Kracauer renaissance with the first-ever critical assessment of his entire body of work.
Koch's analysis, which is concise without sacrificing thoroughness or sophistication, covers both Kracauer's best-known publications (e.g., From Caligari to Hitler, in which he gleans the roots of National Socialism in the films of the Weimar Republic) and previously underexamined texts, including two newly discovered autobiographical novels. Because Kracauer's wide-ranging works emerge from no rigidly unified approach, instead always remaining open to unusual and highly individual perspectives, Koch resists the temptation to force generalization. She does, however, identify recurring tropes in Kracauer's lifetime effort to perceive the basic posture and composition of particular cultures through their visual surfaces. Koch also finds in Kracauer a surprisingly contemporary cultural commentator, whose ideas speak directly to current discussions on film, urban modernity, feminism, cultural representation, violence, and other themes.
This book was long-awaited in Germany, as well as widely and well reviewed. Now translated into English for the first time, it will fuel already growing interest in the United States, where Kracauer lived and wrote from 1941 until his death in 1966. It will attract the attention of students and scholars working in Film Studies, German Studies, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and History.
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