Jennifer M Kapczynski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer M Kapczynski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapczynski |
| SIGNATURE | KAPCZYNSKI J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Posing As a Democrat
The article draws on emblematic examples from 1950s West German cinema to examine how popular film employed elements of typecasting, performance style and staging in order to project images of a positive, “democratic” masculinity and contrast that with negatively connoted “fascist” men. As part of the ongoing project to reimagine the terms of male agency in the wake of military defeat and occupation, numerous commercial films refashioned masculin…
Nazi Film Melodrama * Screen Nazis
Past Lessons
Robert Thalheim's 2007 film And Along Come Tourists (Am Ende kommen Touristen) is a critique of a contemporary Holocaust pedagogy geared to generating emotion rather than to critical engagement. Drawing on Theodor W. Adorno's essay “Education after Auschwitz,” this article argues that Thalheim offers an alternative approach to the Holocaust through an innovative aesthetic treatment of the space of Auschwitz as both a historical and a contemporary…
Screening War
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.
Still Motion
Newer German Cinema
Negotiating Nostalgia
This article examines the representation of the GDR past and the treatment of Ostalgie in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! and Hannes Stöhr's Berlin Is in Germany, arguing that the films evidence a split in recent German fiction films between nostalgic constructions of the past, on the one hand, and postnational views of the present, on the other. Close readings demonstrate that these investments play out on an aesthetic as well as narrative pl…
Homeward Bound? Peter Lorre's "The Lost Man" and the End of Exile
War Stories
Feminine Frequencies
Negotiating Nostalgia
This article examines the representation of the GDR past and the treatment of Ostalgie in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! and Hannes Stöhr's Berlin Is in Germany, arguing that the films evidence a split in recent German fiction films between nostalgic constructions of the past, on the one hand, and postnational views of the present, on the other. Close readings demonstrate that these investments play out on an aesthetic as well as narrative pl…
War Stories
Feminine Frequencies
War Stories
Homeward Bound? Peter Lorre's "The Lost Man" and the End of Exile
Newer German Cinema
Negotiating Nostalgia
This article examines the representation of the GDR past and the treatment of Ostalgie in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! and Hannes Stöhr's Berlin Is in Germany, arguing that the films evidence a split in recent German fiction films between nostalgic constructions of the past, on the one hand, and postnational views of the present, on the other. Close readings demonstrate that these investments play out on an aesthetic as well as narrative pl…
Screening War
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.
Still Motion
Past Lessons
Robert Thalheim's 2007 film And Along Come Tourists (Am Ende kommen Touristen) is a critique of a contemporary Holocaust pedagogy geared to generating emotion rather than to critical engagement. Drawing on Theodor W. Adorno's essay “Education after Auschwitz,” this article argues that Thalheim offers an alternative approach to the Holocaust through an innovative aesthetic treatment of the space of Auschwitz as both a historical and a contemporary…
Nazi Film Melodrama * Screen Nazis
Posing As a Democrat
The article draws on emblematic examples from 1950s West German cinema to examine how popular film employed elements of typecasting, performance style and staging in order to project images of a positive, “democratic” masculinity and contrast that with negatively connoted “fascist” men. As part of the ongoing project to reimagine the terms of male agency in the wake of military defeat and occupation, numerous commercial films refashioned masculin…
European history and politics (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · German History and Society (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (5 works) · German (4 works)