Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Philosophisches Institut), course: Proseminar: Poetics, Politics and and Power in Contemporary American and Postcolonial Literature, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Chacko told the twins that though they hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. (Roy 1996: 52) In establishing the two-egg twins Rahel and Esthapen (Estha) as main characters in her 1996 masterpiece "The God of Small Things," Arundhati Roy has set up...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam (Philosophisches Institut), course: Proseminar, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: ...and for three years it was the most talked-about, written-about and shocked-about venue in the universe. Everyone wanted to go to Studio 54 (Jones/ Kantonen 1999: 246)." "A lot of people thought that at the door was a better show than inside...people would try anything to get in ("Shane" in Studio 54)." When Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager in the late...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Seminar: Der Fremde. Bausteine zu einer kineastischen Anthropolgie, language: English, abstract: online gaming has become a standard feature of most games that are put on the market. As a result, online communities and new "social relations" - the phrase is put in quotation marks with a clear intent here - are established on a permanent basis in these realms with after-effects that seem to be barely controllable by...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, course: HS: From Poe to Akunin: Highlights of the international Mystery Story in literature and film, language: English, abstract: This paper is building up on postmodern patterns of fragmentation, loneliness and disorientation. The Quest is a central storytelling technique - in times where traditional ways of living and social constellations fade and the grand narratives have lost their guiding functions, people have to -mind-map- their own routes through a fagmentary world. The...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Potsdam (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultat), course: Proseminar Politik und Gesellschaft in den USA, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. The parks stand as an outward symbol of this great human principle." These sentences are not extracted from the platform of the American Green Party - they are...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: USA, grade: 1,0, University of Potsdam (Wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultat), course: Interessenverbande in den USA, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Preservation in all its facets in the United States stretches back over more than hundred years and over large parts of this period has enjoyed considerable support by public and politics. However, two decades after World War II, "as the nation shifted from an industrial to a postindustrial (or postmaterialist)...

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: My thesis "New Evil. The Joker in The Dark Knight as a Post-September 11-Villain" establishes a picture of Gotham City that is more "realistic" than in previous Batman films. The population of this city is realised in three parts: the mob consists of African Americans and other "Ethnic"-Americans, the JetSet is almost completely light-skinned. In between one finds Gothams police, mixed Ethnic/black and white, but also known to...