Negotiating popular culture: Wenders, Handke, and the topographies of cultural studies
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American German Studies needs to regard its physical and philosophical dislocation from Germany as an advantage. One way to demonstrate the differences between American German Studies and academic work in German- speaking cultures is to examine Wim Wenders's 'In weiter Ferne, so nah!' and Peter Handke's 'Versuch uber die Jukebox.' Wenders's film and Handke's essay view popular German culture as the product of mass entertainment's influence. American German Studies can view German popular culture as a collection of politically relevant impulses.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 1996
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Eden is burning: Wim Wenders's techniques of synaesthesia
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Wim Wenders uses the journey of the protagonist angel Damiel in 'Wings of Desire' to critique a world in which seeing is the main means of perception and to enter a realm of synaesthesia in which things are perceived through an interaction of the senses, mainly those of vision, hearing and touch. 'Until the End of the World' links synaesthesia to modern technology.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 1996
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Diverging memories? Durs Grunbein's mnemonic topographies and the future of the German past
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A criticism of several of Durs Grunbein's poems shows a combination of the perpetrator and victim memories of the World War II period. Both the memory of the Holocaust and that of Dresden's destruction share the same poetic space.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2001
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