Paul Cookelooks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a huge impact on the medium - doing all the talking in the 'dialogue' - world cinema's economic, aesthetic and political relationship with Hollywood is of profound importance."
Paul Cookelooks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hol...
When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one of the keys to national unity. Ironically, however, it is the realm of culture that most clearly demonstrates the continued divisions between east and west. Taking culture as broadly defined, this book examines state memorialization, literature, television, film, and the internet, to map out the problematic path of German national identity as it struggles to deal with the legacy of division. Drawing on postcolonial theory, the author argues that the east has been defined as the west's "exotic...
When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one of the keys to national unity. Ironically, howeve...
The recent -discovery- of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated Downfall (2004) and the two-part television mini-series Dresden (2006) have shown how ordinary Germans suffered during and after the war. Such films have been presented by critics as treating a topic that had been taboo for German filmmakers. However, the representation of wartime suffering has a long tradition on the German screen. For decades, filmmakers have recontextualized images...
The recent -discovery- of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta's...
This volume will offer the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it will offer new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decades placing The Lives of Others within its wider historical, political, aesthetic and industrial context. On the other, it will offer this group of scholars, which includes many of the leading international figures in the field, opportunity to make a series of...
This volume will offer the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others...
After spending the last twenty years working in many positions within the music industry, as of the start of my studies I have been in a privileged position to monitor and record the major upheaval that is currently ensuing throughout the new media industry of the present day. From 1997 onwards I have tracked the developments within new media distribution via the Internet and have followed with interest the revolution and phenomenons that have followed. This thesis tries in part to address the spiritual, mental and physical aspects of a phenomenon that has started to re-shape how we...
After spending the last twenty years working in many positions within the music industry, as of the start of my studies I have been in a privileged po...
Introduction: Paul Cooke formed one of the biggest bands in the 1980's Sade, and continued to work in the music industry throughout the 80's and the 90's in various incarnations from experimental music maker to digital record label owner and music publisher. As well as an elected Director of PAMRA Ltd in London, England at around the same time period that he wrote these articles. In 1997 as a part of his Multimedia Degree studied in England he wrote for the online music magazine, Music Dish based in NYC, USA. The articles featured in this work are taken from those articles published by...
Introduction: Paul Cooke formed one of the biggest bands in the 1980's Sade, and continued to work in the music industry throughout the 80's and the 9...
