Gerd Bayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 119266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerd Bayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerd |
| FAMILY NAME | Bayer |
| SIGNATURE | BAYER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9831-0522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Poetry in English and Metal Music
Review of: Poetry in English and Metal Music: Adaptation and Appropriation across Media , Arturo Mora-Rioja (2023) London and Berlin: Palgrave-Springer, xii + 331 pp., ISBN 978-3-03129-182-1, h/bk, €128.39 ISBN 978-3-03129-183-8, e-book, €96.29
The Bishop of Exeter Versus Benjamin Hoadly
This essay discusses the use of epistolarity in a pamphlet controversy that played out over a published sermon by the Bishop of Exeter and a critical response by Benjamin Hoadly. While the political, religious, and social aspects of the resulting pamphlet war are substantial, the present article discusses how the form of the letter was employed by the various authors who contributed to this controversy. It argues that the writers drew on readerly…
Introduction
The early modern age witnessed a number of revolutionary changes in the ways people communicated with each other. Within the shifting balances between oral and print cultures following upon Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, epistolarity played a crucial role in how written language was perceived as a source of reliable information. The highly dynamic cultural environment of Restoration England, existing as it did in various forms of in…
Commentary
This commentary argues that, in discussing the racial and cultural identities of cinematic representations of humanoid AI robots, nuances and differentiations are beneficial. It suggests that the essay on which the present text comments does not sufficiently acknowledge the range of identities found in AI films, in particular in Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014)
No Apologies
This essay argues that Jenny Diski’s final novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, adds to the understanding of Diski’s view on literature and the arts, thus complementing her nonfiction writing. Drawing on notions of survival and the Freudian uncanny, the essay shows how the relationships between Michel de Montaigne and Marie de Gournay and between De Gournay and her servant Jamyn are built around notions of affective engagement, where the intelle…
Specters of Mob in David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises
This article situates David Cronenberg’s film Eastern Promises in the context of post-Cold-War European narratives. It argues that the secret dealings of the Russian mob in London are presented in the film as the uncanny and spectral return of forms of government and business that run counter to the rationale conventionally associated with democratic capitalism and at the same time reveal much about its inherent logic. Cronenberg’s film connects …
Facing the perpetrator’s legacy
The aim of this article is to address a transversal topic within perpetrator studies: how subsequent generations deal with the legacy of their perpetrator ancestors. To achieve it, we analyse six recent documentary films, all produced between 2015 and 2018 that cover four different contexts: Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the Chilean and Argentine dictatorships. Through a comparative methodological approach, our focus is on finding simi…
When Earth Matters
This essay discusses Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather from an ecocritical perspective, asking how her late 1960s’ novel already anticipated some of the politics of early twenty-first-century environmental thinking in the postcolonial sphere. The alliance of various marginalized characters who, one way or another, violate against existing hegemonic structures replaces the ideological and cultural conflict over territory, which derived directl…
Confronting the past on screens
This introduction situates the present collection of critical articles both in the historical context of contemporary forms of Holocaust commemoration and in the scholarly tradition of research on Holocaust cinema. The various contributions on fictional and documentary films from diverse countries address a wide range of topics, including the notion of the law and how its courtrooms are staged cinematically or how witnesses are invested with auth…
Being Lemmy Kilmister
This essay discusses how the late Lemmy Kilmister, the driving force behind Motörhead, is framed in the film Lemmy as a rock and metal star who has fully incorporated and embodied his stage persona. This conflation of on-stage and off-stage personas brings to the fore the inherent fiction of authenticity as it is commonly attached to rock and metal music. The film, alongside other iconographic objects that present alternative Lemmies, also underm…
Early Modern Constructions of Europe
Geographies of the Holocaust
Romance Self-Fashioning and the Proto-Gothic in Mary Pix's The Inhumane Cardinal
This essay argues that Mary Pix's The Inhumane Cardinal (1696) should be read as a precursor to Gothic fiction, providing a missing link between, on the one hand, medieval and Renaissance romances and, on the other, the late eighteenth-century revival of romance writing in the form of the Gothic novel. The generic self-fashioning of Pix's novel plays out mostly through a focus on the power of narrative, which the novel presents as a means of acti…
Metal Rules the Globe
Heavy Metal studies can look back on two decades of critical engagement with one of popular music’s most internationally and historically successful genres. Metal Rules the Globe makes a significant contribution to this discussion by bringing together a good number of critical essays that examine heavy metal cultures in various international settings, ranging from China and Nepal to Brazil and the Easter Island. The handsomely produced volume inc…
Global Crusoe
Global Crusoe: comparative literature, postcolonial theory and transnational aesthetics ." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49(1), pp. 120–121
Observational Cinema
J.M. Coetzee’s austerities
Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory (review)
Reviewed by: Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory Gerd Bayer (bio) Brett Ashley Kaplan. Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory. New York: Routledge, 2010. 254 pp. ISBN 978–0415874762, $110. Writing about the Holocaust has recently moved in new directions, within both creative and critical discourses. As the number of eyewitnesses continues [End Page 857] to decrease, various forms of representation take on the burden of remembering the horrific events …
Observational Cinema
On Filming Metafiction
This essay investigates how John Fowles cooperated with director David Tringham on the film script for the short story “The Last Chapter”. It analyses both the initial writing process by comparing different versions of the unpublished short story and the way its metafictional features were turned into cinematic form. By situating this experience in Fowles's early engagement with film versions of his fiction, the essay shows that Fowles to some ex…
Hollywood Utopia
Book Review| January 01 2006 Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American CinemaBrereton, Pat Gerd Bayer Gerd Bayer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (3): 537–541. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718861 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gerd Bayer; Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Ci…
Rewriting Germany from the Margins
Writing outside the Nation
The Band J.B.O. and Exploding the Serious Side of Pop Culture
Facing the perpetrator’s legacy
The aim of this article is to address a transversal topic within perpetrator studies: how subsequent generations deal with the legacy of their perpetrator ancestors. To achieve it, we analyse six recent documentary films, all produced between 2015 and 2018 that cover four different contexts: Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the Chilean and Argentine dictatorships. Through a comparative methodological approach, our focus is on finding simi…
On Filming Metafiction
This essay investigates how John Fowles cooperated with director David Tringham on the film script for the short story “The Last Chapter”. It analyses both the initial writing process by comparing different versions of the unpublished short story and the way its metafictional features were turned into cinematic form. By situating this experience in Fowles's early engagement with film versions of his fiction, the essay shows that Fowles to some ex…
The Band J.B.O. and Exploding the Serious Side of Pop Culture
Rewriting Germany from the Margins
Writing outside the Nation
Hollywood Utopia
Book Review| January 01 2006 Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American CinemaBrereton, Pat Gerd Bayer Gerd Bayer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (3): 537–541. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718861 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gerd Bayer; Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Ci…
Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory (review)
Reviewed by: Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory Gerd Bayer (bio) Brett Ashley Kaplan. Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory. New York: Routledge, 2010. 254 pp. ISBN 978–0415874762, $110. Writing about the Holocaust has recently moved in new directions, within both creative and critical discourses. As the number of eyewitnesses continues [End Page 857] to decrease, various forms of representation take on the burden of remembering the horrific events …
Observational Cinema
On Filming Metafiction
This essay investigates how John Fowles cooperated with director David Tringham on the film script for the short story “The Last Chapter”. It analyses both the initial writing process by comparing different versions of the unpublished short story and the way its metafictional features were turned into cinematic form. By situating this experience in Fowles's early engagement with film versions of his fiction, the essay shows that Fowles to some ex…
Observational Cinema
J.M. Coetzee’s austerities
Metal Rules the Globe
Heavy Metal studies can look back on two decades of critical engagement with one of popular music’s most internationally and historically successful genres. Metal Rules the Globe makes a significant contribution to this discussion by bringing together a good number of critical essays that examine heavy metal cultures in various international settings, ranging from China and Nepal to Brazil and the Easter Island. The handsomely produced volume inc…
Global Crusoe
Global Crusoe: comparative literature, postcolonial theory and transnational aesthetics ." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49(1), pp. 120–121
Romance Self-Fashioning and the Proto-Gothic in Mary Pix's The Inhumane Cardinal
This essay argues that Mary Pix's The Inhumane Cardinal (1696) should be read as a precursor to Gothic fiction, providing a missing link between, on the one hand, medieval and Renaissance romances and, on the other, the late eighteenth-century revival of romance writing in the form of the Gothic novel. The generic self-fashioning of Pix's novel plays out mostly through a focus on the power of narrative, which the novel presents as a means of acti…
Early Modern Constructions of Europe
Geographies of the Holocaust
Being Lemmy Kilmister
This essay discusses how the late Lemmy Kilmister, the driving force behind Motörhead, is framed in the film Lemmy as a rock and metal star who has fully incorporated and embodied his stage persona. This conflation of on-stage and off-stage personas brings to the fore the inherent fiction of authenticity as it is commonly attached to rock and metal music. The film, alongside other iconographic objects that present alternative Lemmies, also underm…
When Earth Matters
This essay discusses Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather from an ecocritical perspective, asking how her late 1960s’ novel already anticipated some of the politics of early twenty-first-century environmental thinking in the postcolonial sphere. The alliance of various marginalized characters who, one way or another, violate against existing hegemonic structures replaces the ideological and cultural conflict over territory, which derived directl…
Confronting the past on screens
This introduction situates the present collection of critical articles both in the historical context of contemporary forms of Holocaust commemoration and in the scholarly tradition of research on Holocaust cinema. The various contributions on fictional and documentary films from diverse countries address a wide range of topics, including the notion of the law and how its courtrooms are staged cinematically or how witnesses are invested with auth…
Facing the perpetrator’s legacy
The aim of this article is to address a transversal topic within perpetrator studies: how subsequent generations deal with the legacy of their perpetrator ancestors. To achieve it, we analyse six recent documentary films, all produced between 2015 and 2018 that cover four different contexts: Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the Chilean and Argentine dictatorships. Through a comparative methodological approach, our focus is on finding simi…
Specters of Mob in David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises
This article situates David Cronenberg’s film Eastern Promises in the context of post-Cold-War European narratives. It argues that the secret dealings of the Russian mob in London are presented in the film as the uncanny and spectral return of forms of government and business that run counter to the rationale conventionally associated with democratic capitalism and at the same time reveal much about its inherent logic. Cronenberg’s film connects …
Commentary
This commentary argues that, in discussing the racial and cultural identities of cinematic representations of humanoid AI robots, nuances and differentiations are beneficial. It suggests that the essay on which the present text comments does not sufficiently acknowledge the range of identities found in AI films, in particular in Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014)
No Apologies
This essay argues that Jenny Diski’s final novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, adds to the understanding of Diski’s view on literature and the arts, thus complementing her nonfiction writing. Drawing on notions of survival and the Freudian uncanny, the essay shows how the relationships between Michel de Montaigne and Marie de Gournay and between De Gournay and her servant Jamyn are built around notions of affective engagement, where the intelle…
Poetry in English and Metal Music
Review of: Poetry in English and Metal Music: Adaptation and Appropriation across Media , Arturo Mora-Rioja (2023) London and Berlin: Palgrave-Springer, xii + 331 pp., ISBN 978-3-03129-182-1, h/bk, €128.39 ISBN 978-3-03129-183-8, e-book, €96.29
The Bishop of Exeter Versus Benjamin Hoadly
This essay discusses the use of epistolarity in a pamphlet controversy that played out over a published sermon by the Bishop of Exeter and a critical response by Benjamin Hoadly. While the political, religious, and social aspects of the resulting pamphlet war are substantial, the present article discusses how the form of the letter was employed by the various authors who contributed to this controversy. It argues that the writers drew on readerly…
Introduction
The early modern age witnessed a number of revolutionary changes in the ways people communicated with each other. Within the shifting balances between oral and print cultures following upon Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, epistolarity played a crucial role in how written language was perceived as a source of reliable information. The highly dynamic cultural environment of Restoration England, existing as it did in various forms of in…
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