Bloom and Bust

Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification
Herausgeber: Cliver, Gwyneth; Smith-Prei, Carrie

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Produktbeschreibung

These essays provide a fresh study of the urban landscape in the former German Democratic Republic Constructs a view of the urban environment by shifting focus away from Berlin and exploring an area of East Germany overlooked by most other studies Explores two decades of social, cultural and political shifts to reveal a modern and unified community

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9781782384908
• ISBN-10: 1782384901
• Artikelnr.: 41984455

Autorenporträt

Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realism in the German Sixties (U of Toronto P, 2013), co-editor of a special issue on lesbian representations ( Germanistik in Ireland, 2010), and is co-founder of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei
PART I: GROUNDWORK
Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of
Quedlinburg
Heike Alberts
Chapter 2. No Man's Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo's
Potsdamer Platz
Christopher Jones
PART II: PROJECTIONS
Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany's Postunification Woes:
Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter,
and Kombat Sechzehn
Sebastian Heiduschke
Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad
Sulza and its Toskana Therme
Erika Nelson
Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the
Postunification Capital
Susanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia
Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude Hirman
Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda
Gwyneth Cliver
PART III: THEORIES
Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same?
Heiner Stahl
Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in
Eisenach's Cityscape
Jason James
Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility:
Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's "süße Krankheit"
Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie
Afterword
Rolf J. Goebel
Notes on Contributors
Index