Michael Tratner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1355972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Tratner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Tratner |
| SIGNATURE | TRATNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Translating Values
Seventeenth century mercantilist economics is based on "translating": foreign wealth changes meaning or value in becoming domestic property. The Pocahontas story manipulates biographical evidence to mercantilist ends: she is "translated" by love and marriage into a British subject, "domesticating" her Indian lands into British/American property. Retelling this story keeps American mercantilism alive, reaffirming the mythic belief that the US is t…
Crowd Scenes
The movies and the masses erupted on the world stage together. In a few decades around the turn of the twentieth century, millions of persons who rarely could afford a night at the theater and had never voted in an election became regular paying customers at movie palaces and proud members of new political parties. The question of how to represent these new masses fascinated and plagued politicians and filmmakers alike. \n \nMichael Tratner exami…
Lovers, Filmmakers, and Nazis
Fritz Lang's last two movies are autobiographies of a peculiar kind. He remakes two early films, transforming them into allegorical representations of the intense romantic and political triangle which shaped his early career-the triangle connecting the director Lang, the screenwriter Thea Von Harbou (who was also his wife), and the Nazi Party
Derrida's Debt to Milton Friedman
This article draws on Derrida's account of economic history in Given Time I: Counterfeit Money to show that he is indebted to an economist he does not mention at all, Milton Friedman. Derrida calls for an investigation of the literary consequences of the "dematerialization of money" and proceeds to give his own version of this history by examining a Baudelaire story from 1864 and an economic treatise from 1925. Those texts may mark moments in eco…
Deficits and Desires
Modernism and Mass Politics
Lovers, Filmmakers, and Nazis
Fritz Lang's last two movies are autobiographies of a peculiar kind. He remakes two early films, transforming them into allegorical representations of the intense romantic and political triangle which shaped his early career-the triangle connecting the director Lang, the screenwriter Thea Von Harbou (who was also his wife), and the Nazi Party
Derrida's Debt to Milton Friedman
This article draws on Derrida's account of economic history in Given Time I: Counterfeit Money to show that he is indebted to an economist he does not mention at all, Milton Friedman. Derrida calls for an investigation of the literary consequences of the "dematerialization of money" and proceeds to give his own version of this history by examining a Baudelaire story from 1864 and an economic treatise from 1925. Those texts may mark moments in eco…
Modernism and Mass Politics
Deficits and Desires
Derrida's Debt to Milton Friedman
This article draws on Derrida's account of economic history in Given Time I: Counterfeit Money to show that he is indebted to an economist he does not mention at all, Milton Friedman. Derrida calls for an investigation of the literary consequences of the "dematerialization of money" and proceeds to give his own version of this history by examining a Baudelaire story from 1864 and an economic treatise from 1925. Those texts may mark moments in eco…
Lovers, Filmmakers, and Nazis
Fritz Lang's last two movies are autobiographies of a peculiar kind. He remakes two early films, transforming them into allegorical representations of the intense romantic and political triangle which shaped his early career-the triangle connecting the director Lang, the screenwriter Thea Von Harbou (who was also his wife), and the Nazi Party
Crowd Scenes
The movies and the masses erupted on the world stage together. In a few decades around the turn of the twentieth century, millions of persons who rarely could afford a night at the theater and had never voted in an election became regular paying customers at movie palaces and proud members of new political parties. The question of how to represent these new masses fascinated and plagued politicians and filmmakers alike. \n \nMichael Tratner exami…
Translating Values
Seventeenth century mercantilist economics is based on "translating": foreign wealth changes meaning or value in becoming domestic property. The Pocahontas story manipulates biographical evidence to mercantilist ends: she is "translated" by love and marriage into a British subject, "domesticating" her Indian lands into British/American property. Retelling this story keeps American mercantilism alive, reaffirming the mythic belief that the US is t…
Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works)