Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian ImaginationUniversity of Michigan Press, 1998 - 240 Seiten Framed Visions analyzes the pivotal role American mass media and popular culture have played in shaping the political, social, and psychological identity of postwar Germans and Austrians. Through detailed readings of films, novels, plays, and poems of a variety of contemporary artists--including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Elfriede Jelinek, Herbert Achternbusch, Monika Treut, Peter Handke, and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann--Gerd Gemünden reveals the paradoxical stance of this generation toward American politics and Hollywood aesthetics. On the one hand, they are pulled toward a culture that has shaped childhood images, tastes and desires; on the other, they reject American politics and the colonizing effect of its mass culture. In contrast to most scholarship about the reception of U.S. culture abroad, this study underscores the imaginary relation of contemporary German and Austrian artists to America. Topics such as "Americanization" and "cultural imperialism" are therefore treated not as a foreign principle imposed from the outside but as ways that German and Austrian artists have tried to come to terms with their own problematic culture and history. Gemünden's study elucidates how the culture of the United States has been mapped in contradictory ways onto questions of national and cultural identity in Germany and Austria over the last thirty years. Gerd Gemünden is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College. |
Inhalt
Framed Visions An Introduction | 1 |
Between AvantGarde and Popular Culture | 41 |
From Andy Warhol to Rolf Dieter Brinkmann | 43 |
Watching Television with Elfriede Jelinek | 66 |
Hollywood Made in Bavaria | 87 |
The Gangster Film and Melodrama of Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 89 |
The Indianerphantasien of Herbert Achternbusch | 108 |
Subjectivities in Motion | 131 |
The Specular America of Peter Handke | 133 |
The OediPal Cinema of Wim Wenders | 158 |
The Queer Utopia of Monika Treut | 177 |
National Identity and Americanization in the Unified Germany | 195 |
Bibliography | 215 |
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Adorno aesthetics American culture American popular culture Andreas Huyssen Andy Warhol argued artistic audience become Botho Strauß Brecht Brechtian Bürger camera Comanche contemporary critical cultural imperialism culture industry discourse discussion Dorothee Elfriede Jelinek Elsaesser Enzensberger essay European experience fascism Fassbinder Fassbinder's Father Is Coming filmmakers Frankfurt am Main genre Gerda German Film Herbert Achternbusch high art historical avant-garde Hollywood Hopper's paintings Ibid images intellectuals John Ford jukebox Kilroy literary literature Long Farewell male mass culture mass media meaning melodrama Michael Monika Treut Munich narrative narrator national identity Nighthawks Paglia Peter Handke plays poem political Pop art pornography postmodern postwar protagonists radical Rainer Werner reality reception Reinbek representation road movie rock music role Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Rowohlt scene sexual Short Letter shot social story strategy Strauß Suhrkamp Syberberg television texts theater tion tradition trans United Vietnam viewer Virgin Machine Wenders's West German Wim Wenders women Wondratschek writes York