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"A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots"?
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 39.95This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn. In a comparatively short period, the television industry helped to reconstruct not only postwar Japanese popular culture, but also the Japanese social and political landscape. During the early years of television, Japanese of all... more...
"Der Letzte der Ungerechten"
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 22.64Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhalt Vorwort 7 Ronny Loewy Die Shoah-Outtakes 11 Benjamin Murmelstein Das Ende von Theresienstadt Stellungnahme eines Beteiligten 15 "Wenn Sie das demokratisch nennen, dann bin ich gerne ein Faschist" Ein Auszug aus dem Interview von Claude Lanzmann mit Benjamin Murmelstein27 Doron Rabinovici Benjamin Murmelstein, "der Letzte... more...
"Es ist ein Unmensch keines Mitleids fähig"
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 8.61Hauptbeschreibung Lange Zeit fand der Antisemitismusvorwurf gegen Shakespeares "Kaufmann von Venedig" wenig Beachtung: Er wurde übersehen, so lange antijüdische Ressentiments zum gesellschaftlichen Konsens gehörten - er wurde verleugnet, so lange Shakespeares Werk zum Ideal einer reinen Dichtungskunst stilisiert wurde. Nicht zufällig waren es dann... more...
The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Revisited: Motifs of Science Fiction and Social Criticism
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung This book is a survey of typical Science Fiction elements in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Christian Erkenbrecher first goes through a short history of Science Fiction and identifies certain motifs of the genre in order to correctly place the novel within a useful context. Classical elements of the Science Fiction... more...
The Slumdog Phenomenon
Anthem Press 2013; US$ 99.00Featuring a dynamic combination of landmark essays by leading critics and theorists, The Slumdog Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology addresses multiple issues relating to Slumdog Millionaire, providing new ways of looking at this controversial film. more...
(Syn)aesthetics
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 29.00A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. more...
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De Gruyter 2012; US$ 531.00This supplement to the Deutsches Theater-Lexikon [German Lexicon of Theater], which was completed in 2011, amplifies and extends Volumes I-IV (A-T), which first appeared between 1953 and 1998. Articles have been re-edited and expanded with an emphasis on the 20th century, and personalities from the world of German-language theater who were not previously... more...
10,000 Ways to Die
Oldcastle Books 2009; US$ 21.99"40 years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die . It?s an embarrassing tome when I look at it now: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. In the intervening period I have had the interesting experience of being a film director. So now, when I watch these films,... more...
100 Neo-Futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)
Agate Publishing 2011; US$ 12.00A reissue of the first book of short plays from The Neo-Futurists' long-running late night show "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind." more...









