Florentine Strzelczyk- University of Calgary
Florentine Strzelczyk
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Helmut Dietl's 1992 comedy Schtonk! evokes Hitler's incessant presence in postwar Germany of the early 1980s and exposes the German fascination with fascism by fictionalizing the 1983 scandal around the Hitler diaries. Hitler and the Third Reich as the main objects of desire in the film remain absent, yet are also ever-present through the fetishes...
When Heimat Meets Hollywood examines four contemporary German filmmakers who engage in different ways with Hollywood, with American film traditions, and with representations of America. It situates Wolfgang Petersen, Roland Emmerich, Percy Adlon, and Tom Tykwer and their respective filmic oeuvres in the context of transnationalism, a growing theore...
"Nazis. We love them," professes Tony Barta, referring to Hollywood's fascination with fascism as its most beloved villain (128). Tall black leather boots, well-cut Nazi uniforms, Germanic accents, and fascist architecture have energized and sexualized the worn plots of Hollywood films and their primal conflict between good and evil for more than h...
Androids and female cyborgs are essential to the repertoire of science fiction films. While the genre has changed significantly since the nineteentwenties, representations of female androids and cyborgs have not. Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996) show striking similarities between the conceptualization of the Machin...
The prolific German film actor, director, and producer Harry Piel can be considered the first German pop-culture icon of action entertainment during the 1920s and 1930s. The sci-fi and action features of the "dynamite director" and "man with nerves of steel" showcased the smooth surfaces and powerful forces of technology and charged technological a...
Actor, filmmaker, and producer Harry Piel was the first pop-culture icon of the German movie industry during the early decades of the twentieth century His high tech action thriller Die Welt ohne Maske from 1934 dramatizes the invention of an 'uber-television," a technological device capable of penetrating walls and bridging long distances. What ma...
Mit der von Petra Boden und Rainer Rosenberg herausgegebenen Anthologie Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945–1965 sowie der von Marcus Gärtner veröffentlichten Dissertation Kontinuität und Wandel in der neueren deutschen Literaturwissenschaft nach 1945 liegen nun zwei Untersuchungen vor, die neue Perspektiven zu dem noch unterbelichteten Feld der Na...
Der Artikel diskutiert zwei bedeutende Kriterien der Lehrwerkanalyse. Das erste Kriterium behandelt die Einbeziehung der Zweitspracherwerbsforschung in die Lehrwerkanalyze und -konzeption: Die neuere Spracherwerbsforschung stellt das Subjekt in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Untersuchungen, die--auf die Progression eines Lehrwerks bezogen--besonders den kom...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-314). Microfiche.
