Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1, Universitat Hamburg (Kunstgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Die Kunste im Exil 1933-45 - Scheitern und Bestehen in der Fremde, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Beginn des Dritten Reiches und die Machtubernahme Adolf Hitlers 1933 setzten den Anfang fur die systematische Vertreibung der kreativsten Kopfe des deutschsprachigen Films. Der deutsche Film hat sich von dieser Vertreibung seiner Elite nicht wieder erholt. In der Arbeit Zuflucht im Paradies? Deutschsprachige Filmarchitekten in Hollywood" geht es um die Exilerfahrung...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy Institut ), course: 'The Subaltern Speaks': Minority Literature in the USA, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Around World War One, two American authors from different minority backgrounds published their seemingly unlike novels. In 1912, the African American diplomat and writer James Weldon Johnson published his narrative "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" anonymously, and in 1917, the Jewish American editor and journalist...

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, University of Hamburg (Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Double spaced, abstract: In the first decade of the 20th century, when Lewis W. Hine took his first photo series at Ellis Island, 7 million immigrants came to the United States of America. In 1907 immigration's peak was reached, when almost 3.000 immigrants, most of whom came from Southern and Eastern Europe, entered the New World on a daily basis. After Ellis Island...

Authors do not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their authorial persona. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja Longolius develops a concept of "performative authorship" by examining different strategies of becoming an author. She demonstrates this idea through a critical and comparative analysis of the works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Specifically, Auster/Calle and Breitz/Foer form a generational pair of opposites, enabling a discussion of postmodern and...