How to Make the Body

Jennifer L. Creech is Associate Professor of German, Affiliate Faculty in Film & Media Studies, and Associate Faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester, USA. She is the author of Mothers, Comrades and Outcasts in East German Women’s Films (2016) and co-editor of Spectacle: German Visual Culture, Volume 2 (2015).Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Professor in Critical Studies and Visual Studies at California College of the Arts, USA. He is co-editor of the book series Visual Cultures and German Contexts published by Bloomsbury. He serves as Vice President of the U.S. Fulbright Association's Chapter Advisory Board, as well as on the Advisory Board and on the Summer Workshop Program Committee for the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität, Germany.

• 1. Jennifer L. Creech and Thomas O. Haakenson, “Introduction: How to Make the Body”2. Alison Stewart, “Arousal, the Bible, and Bruegel’s Codpieces: The Male Body in Early Modern Visual Culture” 3. David Ciarlo, “The Construction of the Aryan Body in German Visual Advertising, 1908-33” 4. Jill Holaday, “Die Gruppe Zero: Transforming Trauma to Transcendence” 5.Ilka Rasch, “RAF Corpse Art: The Living Dead in the Work of Gerhard Richter, Ernst Volland, Astrid Proll and Andres Veiel” 6. Sebastian Heiduschke, “Penis-bodied Specimen in the Exhibit Körperwelten (‘Body Worlds’)” 7. Jennifer L. Creech, “For the Porn Connoisseur: Cinema Joy” 8. Zachary Fitzpatrick, “Orientalized Bodies at Work: Cultural Zaniness in Berlin's Sayonara Tokyo Revue” 9. Thomas O. Haakenson, “Ai Weiwei’s Body in Berlin”10. Jamele Watkins, “Afrolocken: Natural Hair in German Literature and Media” 11. Faye Stewart, “Poppthority: The Politics of Dr. Bitch Ray’s Bodily Interventions” 12. Lucy Ashton, “Becoming Invisible/ Against Visibility: Hito Steyerl’s How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational. MOV File”

From biblical arousals to RAF corpse art; from Joy's feminist pornography to Dr Bitch Ray's bodily interventions, there is much to admire in this thought-provoking essay collection on the visual culture and politics of the body in real-world German contexts.