Author: Francis G. GentryPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0815317859
Category : Nibelungen
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Nibelungen Tradition
Author: Francis G. GentryPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0815317859
Category : Nibelungen
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen
Author: David J. LevinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400866693
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's 1920s film Die Nibelungen creatively exploit contrasts between good and bad aesthetics to address the question of what is German and what is not. He shows that each work associates a villainous character, portrayed as non-Germanic and Jewish, with the sometimes dramatically awkward act of narration. For both Wagner and Lang, narration--or, in cinematic terms, visual presentation--possesses a typically Jewish potential for manipulation and control. Consistent with this view, Levin shows, the Germanic hero Siegfried is killed in each work by virtue of his unwitting adoption of a narrative role. Levin begins with an explanation of the book's theoretical foundations and then applies these theories to close readings of, in turn, Wagner's cycle and Lang's film. He concludes by tracing how Germans have dealt with the Nibelungen myths in the wake of the Second World War, paying special attention to Michael Verhoeven's 1989 film The Nasty Girl. His fresh and interdisciplinary approach sheds new light not only on Wagner's Ring and Lang's Die Nibelungen, but also on the ways in which aesthetics can be put to the service of aggression and hatred. The book is an important contribution to scholarship in film and music and also to the broader study of German culture and national identity.
Die Nibelungen
Author: Friedrich HebbelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kriemhild (Legendary character)
Languages : de
Pages : 220
Book Description
“Die” Nibelungen
Author: Johannes ScherrDie Nibelungen
Author: ScherrDie Nibelungen
Author: Michael KöhlmeierPublisher: Piper ebooks
ISBN: 3492972195
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 104
Book Description
Diesen klassischen Sagenkreis des Abendlands hat Michael Köhlmeier im freien Vortrag neu erzählt. Auf seine unvergleichliche Art erweckt er Jung-Siegfried, den Drachentöter, die schöne Kriemhild und den Hof der Burgunderkönige zu neuem Leben, erzählt von Intrige, Hinterhalt, Rache und Mord so eindrücklich, dass daraus eine ganz heutige Geschichte wird.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Die Nibelungen
Author: Die Nibelungen
Author: Friedrich HebbelShell Shock Cinema
Author: Anton KaesPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400831199
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not depict battle scenes or soldiers in combat, engaged the war and registered its tragic aftermath. These films reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock, reeling from a devastating defeat that it never officially acknowledged, let alone accepted. Kaes uses the term "shell shock"--coined during World War I to describe soldiers suffering from nervous breakdowns--as a metaphor for the psychological wounds that found expression in Weimar cinema. Directors like Robert Wiene, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang portrayed paranoia, panic, and fear of invasion in films peopled with serial killers, mad scientists, and troubled young men. Combining original close textual analysis with extensive archival research, Kaes shows how this post-traumatic cinema of shell shock transformed extreme psychological states into visual expression; how it pushed the limits of cinematic representation with its fragmented story lines, distorted perspectives, and stark lighting; and how it helped create a modernist film language that anticipated film noir and remains incredibly influential today. A compelling contribution to the cultural history of trauma, Shell Shock Cinema exposes how German film gave expression to the loss and acute grief that lay behind Weimar's sleek façade.