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Anna-Brigitte Schlittler
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Katharina Tietze
(eds.)
Bally - A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period
In the 1930s, shoes became fashionable objects with wide consequences for design and industrial production. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution.
Passing and Posing between Black and White
Calibrating the Color Line in U.S. Cinema
Race relations in U.S. cinema not only concern visual representation of the Other but also an interrogation of boundaries that pertain to the medium itself.
Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
Dramatic Disgust
Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane
Pity, Fear, DISGUST: This study investigates how from antiquity to in-yer-face theatre the sensation of disgust has animated the dramatic genre.
Germany's Conscience
Friedrich Meinecke: Champion of German Historicism
Considering current political developments, Friedrich Meinecke's insights on questions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda are especially relevant for historical research today.
Weimar Controversies
Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer
In this book, political conflicts over occultism, nudism, and popular literature reveal themselves as toxic ingredients to the demise of the Weimar Republic.
Tobias Janz
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Chien-Chang Yang
(eds.)
Decentering Musical Modernity
Perspectives on East Asian and European Music History
A book about the multifaceted concept of musical modernity in Europe and Asia, investigating its many forms, expressions and interpretations.
»Truth« and Fiction
Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and Literature
Analyses of conspirational thinking in Eastern European cultures and literatures.
Building Blocks
A Cultural History of Codes, Compositions and Dispositions
From laboratory to kindergarten and back to the lab: Building blocks have become the practical materials for learning, playing and working, reconfiguring our cultural practices.
Fictions of Legibility
The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin
This monograph focuses on the human body as a symbolic medium through which novelistic literature negotiated its identity vis-à-vis other disciplines.