Elisabeth Bronfen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1147656 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elisabeth Bronfen |
| NOMBRES | Elisabeth |
| APELLIDO | Bronfen |
| FIRMA | BRONFEN E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Zurich |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Serial Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment
Invoking the lack of a common ground is not new in American politics. Neither is conceiving this national division in terms of a battle of opposing visions of what democracy should look like. In his "Tale of Two Cities" speech, held at the Democratic National Convention on July 16, 1984, New York Governor Mario Cuomo took President Reagan to task for describing the country as "a shining city on a hill." Such a comparison necessitated, according t…
Ghosting Her Dead Body
The essay explores the afterlife of Elisabeth Bronfen’s feminist insights in Over Her Dead Body (1992) by crossmapping it with the photographic archives of two women, Italian artist Linda Fregni Nagler’s installation Hidden Mothers (2006– 2013), and Turkish photographer Maryam Shahinynan’s photocollection from the 1940s. Today that feminism is often consigned to history, we probe the political force of archives in keeping its ghost alive from the…
When Movies Were Theater
Nostalgia pervades William Paul's discussion of the way Hollywood's film productions were intricately tied to the theatrical spaces where they were exhibited, given that today the theater has ceased to be the primary venue for watching movies. The book's photographs of store theaters and movie palaces evoke a lost world, and its discussion traces the changes in movie theater design, asking us to rethink the effect of these architectural spaces du…
Hybrid Spaces in Antony and Cleopatra
Bronfen reads Antony and Cleopatra as a tragedy of hybrid spaces. Emphasizing the carnivalesque way in which Cleopatra embodies Egypt, Bronfen explores how cross-dressing and gendered masquerade blend with the concept of the king’s two bodies expressed in the duality of body natural and body politic, particularly resonant during Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Exploiting and confusing this duality, Cleopatra throws open a theatrical space wherever she g…
Globalgothic
Screening and disclosing fantasy
Taking Hitchcock's consistent use of rear projection as its subject, the essay explores the manner in which this device serves to re-establish the contract between Hitchcock and his audience. I argue that rear projection allows him to produce a distance to the very obsessions the audience is also drawn into by virtue of the hallucinatory power his camerawork unfolds on the screen. We are meant to empathize with a character's fantasies, even while…
Gothic Renaissance
This collection of essays by scholars in Renaissance and Gothic studies traces the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the English Renaissance. The essays explore three interrelated issues: 1. Early modern texts trouble hegemonic order by pitting the irrational against the rational, femininity against patriarchal authority, bestiality against the human, insurgency against authoritative rulership, and gho…
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic
This Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show how the Gothic in numerous forms - including literature, film, television, and cyberspace - helps audiences both to distance themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying problems of m…
Hollywoods Kriegsbilder
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
Night and the Uncanny
The night is a double of the day, a comment on its activities, a countersite. In most cultures, the setting of the sun has always been connected with the advent of a different way of thinking and behaving. As our sight diminishes, other senses — notably our faculties of hearing and of the imagination — come to be increased. Our sense of distance and measure changes, the contours of the persons or objects we meet become blurred, we encounter a sen…
Femme fatale. Genre memory einer Denkfigur«
Reality Check
elisabeth bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich. Her books include Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2004), The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press, 1998), and Over Her Dead Body: Configurations of Femininity, Death, and the Aesthetic (Routledge, 1992). She is the coeditor, with Misha Kavka, of Feminist Consequences. The…
Femme Fatale--Negotiations of Tragic Desire
The article uses Stanley Cavell's claim that tragedy be thought of in terms of avoiding recognition of the other as a way to discuss a genre - film noir - which is usually ignored by tragic theorists. A close reading of Billy Wilders classic film Double Indemnity serves to present a way to think tragedy not just as a narrowly defined dramatic genre, but as a mode or structure of feeling, with the femme fatale as a particularly resilient contempor…
Seductive Departures of Marlene Dietrich
Identities
Celebrating Catastrophe
Feminist Consequences
Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women. These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multi…
Feminist consequences
Exploring the status of feminism in this'postfeminist'age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women.
Retro-Bildwelten
There's no place like home' - The Aporia of Homecoming The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
(2000). 'There's no place like home' - The Aporia of Homecoming The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming) Parallax: Vol. 6, The Re-Interpretation of Dreams, pp. 49-62
The Language of Hysteria
Bronfen discusses the language of hysteria in conjunction with recent discussions of ethics, notably in the sense that the hysteric gesture of misappropriating a grand narrative such as humanism confronts the manner in which discussions of gender might traverse alterity without effacing or occluding it
Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory
Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory
(1999). Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 74, Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory, pp. 3-13
The Knotted Subject
Surrealist writer André Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical wr…
Reality Check
elisabeth bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich. Her books include Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2004), The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press, 1998), and Over Her Dead Body: Configurations of Femininity, Death, and the Aesthetic (Routledge, 1992). She is the coeditor, with Misha Kavka, of Feminist Consequences. The…
Femme Fatale--Negotiations of Tragic Desire
The article uses Stanley Cavell's claim that tragedy be thought of in terms of avoiding recognition of the other as a way to discuss a genre - film noir - which is usually ignored by tragic theorists. A close reading of Billy Wilders classic film Double Indemnity serves to present a way to think tragedy not just as a narrowly defined dramatic genre, but as a mode or structure of feeling, with the femme fatale as a particularly resilient contempor…
Seductive Departures of Marlene Dietrich
The Language of Hysteria
Bronfen discusses the language of hysteria in conjunction with recent discussions of ethics, notably in the sense that the hysteric gesture of misappropriating a grand narrative such as humanism confronts the manner in which discussions of gender might traverse alterity without effacing or occluding it
Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory
Disavowal and Insight
The Pornography of Representation by Susanne Kappeler , London: Polity Press, 1986, 248 pp., £6.95 paperback
The Lady Vanishes
Research Article| October 01 1989 The Lady Vanishes: Sophie Freud and Beyond the Pleasure Principle Elisabeth Bronfen Elisabeth Bronfen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (4): 961–991. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-4-961 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elisabeth Bronfen; The Lady Vanishes: Sophie Freud and Beyond the …
The Sexuality of Seeing Sexuality
Sexual Visions. Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Ludmilla Jordanova , London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989, 207pp., 17 b. & w. illus., £19.95 Sexuality. An Illustrated History. Representing the Sexual in Medicine and Culture from the Middle Ages to the Age of AIDS by Sander Gilman , New York: John Wiley, 1989, 376pp., 328 b. & w. illus., $49.95
Over her dead body
"In 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote that "the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjunction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Height6s to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thi…
From omphalos to phallus
(1992). From omphalos to phallus: Cultural representations of femininity and death. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 145-158
Death and Representation
Entortung und Identität
(1994). Entortung und Identitat: Ein Thema der Modernen Exilliteratur. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 70-78
Cultural studies and philosophy
(1995). Cultural studies and philosophy. Parallax: Vol. 1, Cultural Studies and Philosophy, pp. 93-117
Freud's hysterics, Jaspers' nostalgics
(1996). Freud's hysterics, Jaspers' nostalgics. Parallax: Vol. 2, Dissonant Feminisms, pp. 49-64
Kundry's Laughter
The Knotted Subject
Surrealist writer André Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical wr…
Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory
(1999). Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 74, Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory, pp. 3-13
There's no place like home' - The Aporia of Homecoming The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
(2000). 'There's no place like home' - The Aporia of Homecoming The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming) Parallax: Vol. 6, The Re-Interpretation of Dreams, pp. 49-62
The Language of Hysteria
Bronfen discusses the language of hysteria in conjunction with recent discussions of ethics, notably in the sense that the hysteric gesture of misappropriating a grand narrative such as humanism confronts the manner in which discussions of gender might traverse alterity without effacing or occluding it
Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory
Feminist Consequences
Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women. These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multi…
Feminist consequences
Exploring the status of feminism in this'postfeminist'age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women.
Retro-Bildwelten
Identities
Celebrating Catastrophe
Seductive Departures of Marlene Dietrich
Femme Fatale--Negotiations of Tragic Desire
The article uses Stanley Cavell's claim that tragedy be thought of in terms of avoiding recognition of the other as a way to discuss a genre - film noir - which is usually ignored by tragic theorists. A close reading of Billy Wilders classic film Double Indemnity serves to present a way to think tragedy not just as a narrowly defined dramatic genre, but as a mode or structure of feeling, with the femme fatale as a particularly resilient contempor…
Reality Check
elisabeth bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich. Her books include Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2004), The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press, 1998), and Over Her Dead Body: Configurations of Femininity, Death, and the Aesthetic (Routledge, 1992). She is the coeditor, with Misha Kavka, of Feminist Consequences. The…
Femme fatale. Genre memory einer Denkfigur«
Night and the Uncanny
The night is a double of the day, a comment on its activities, a countersite. In most cultures, the setting of the sun has always been connected with the advent of a different way of thinking and behaving. As our sight diminishes, other senses — notably our faculties of hearing and of the imagination — come to be increased. Our sense of distance and measure changes, the contours of the persons or objects we meet become blurred, we encounter a sen…
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