Spectacle

Jennifer L. Creech is Associate Professor of German at the University of Rochester. She has published on German, Austrian and postunification cinema, is the author of Mothers, Comrades and Outcasts: East German Women’s Films 1965 and Beyond and has published essays in the Women in German Yearbook and Seminar.Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Provost at California College of the Arts (San Francisco / Oakland). He is co-editor of the series German Visual Culture and co-coordinator of the Visual Culture Network of the German Studies Association in the United States. He has published widely, including essays in New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism and Memorialization in Germany since 1945.

• Contents: Thomas O. Haakenson: What is «German Spectacle»? – Jacob M. Baum: Opening a Window to the Devil: Religious Ritual as Baroque Spectacle in Early Modern Germany – Elizabeth Otto: Bauhaus Spectacles, Bauhaus Specters – Brían Hanrahan: Live on the Air, Live on the Ground: The «Chamberlin Flight» as Spectacular Event, June 1927 – Paul Monty Paret: Berlin in Light: Wilhelmine Monuments and Weimar Mass Culture – Sara Ann Sewell: Spectacles in Everyday Life: The Disciplinary Function of Communist Culture in Weimar Germany – Nadine Rossol: Spectacular Settings for Nazi Spectacles: Mass Theater in the Third Reich – Jennifer L. Creech: Gudrun is Not a Fighting Fuck Toy: Spectacle, Femininity and Terrorism in The Baader-Meinhof Complex and The Raspberry Reich – Deborah Ascher Barnstone: Spectacular Architecture: Transparency in Postwar West German Parliaments – Heather Mathews: Beyond the Global Spectacle: Documenta 13 and Multicultural Germany – Brechtje Beuker: The Spectacle of Terrorism and the Threat of Theatricality.

«Overall, this volume provides a fascinating, multifaceted, and truly interdisciplinary look at spectacle in the German context. It is of considerable value to students and scholars in German studies.»(Rick McCormick, Feminist German Studies 34/2019)