Margaret Mccarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Mccarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0335-7745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Utopian Spaces and Their Everyday Traces in Thomas Stuber’s In den Gängen (2018)
This article examines utopian elements in Thomas Stuber’s 2018 film In den Gängen. Despite the neoliberal forces that constrain a group of supermarket shelf stackers in the former East Germany, the film’s characters exhibit congenial bonds in the face of alienated work. Strikingly, their encounters with machines also convey an other-directedness and improvised conviviality, or energy that enables them to devise bonds in fleeting moments. As much …
They were Threatening Castration, Man
Somnolent Selfhood
Florian Illies's best seller Generation Golf: Eine Inspektion briefly alludes to the 1997 film Winterschläfer, underscoring its young leads' affinities with his own apolitical generation. Though Illies at most chides his contemporaries for their smugly integrated selfhood, the film's director, Tom Tykwer, clinically atomizes his own characters' phlegmatic tendencies and reveals a morose and immobilized German identity. Filmic allusions to Wim Wen…
Entertaining Auteurism
German popular filmmakers who participated in the Denk ich an Deutschland series brought a range of conflicting impulses to their meditations on Germany, including the universalizing tendencies of popular culture, together with the personal and political strains often present in documentary films. With varying degrees of success, each director agitates national identity via an idiosyncratic selfhood, a process which in turn expands our notions of…
Edmund Spenser at Kilcolman Castle
As part of a broader study of the Elizabethan colonization of Munster, the home of a member of the colonial elite was the object of four seasons of fieldwork, 1993–96. Kilcolman Castle in north County Cork now comprises a ruined tower-house and some mounds of masonry overlooking Kilcolman Bog. The castle and 3,000 acres had been granted to the poet Edmund Spenser, who refurbished and occupied it from 1588 to 1598, when Tyrone's rebellion burned K…
Der Weg zur weiblichen Autonomie. Zur Psychologie der Selbstwerdung im literarischen Werk von Lou Andreas-Salome
Teutonic Water
Margaret McCarthy is assistant professor of German at Davidson College, where she teaches twentieth-century German literature and film. She has published articles on Ingeborg Bachmann, Jutta Brückner, Luc Besson, and G. W. Pabst. At present she is coediting a volume on German popular film with Randall Halle
Amy Fay
Fay Encore
First metaphors
Experimental and observational studies illuminate the origins, functions, and possible individual differences in early metaphoric language
Edmund Spenser at Kilcolman Castle
As part of a broader study of the Elizabethan colonization of Munster, the home of a member of the colonial elite was the object of four seasons of fieldwork, 1993–96. Kilcolman Castle in north County Cork now comprises a ruined tower-house and some mounds of masonry overlooking Kilcolman Bog. The castle and 3,000 acres had been granted to the poet Edmund Spenser, who refurbished and occupied it from 1588 to 1598, when Tyrone's rebellion burned K…
First metaphors
Experimental and observational studies illuminate the origins, functions, and possible individual differences in early metaphoric language
Fay Encore
Amy Fay
Teutonic Water
Margaret McCarthy is assistant professor of German at Davidson College, where she teaches twentieth-century German literature and film. She has published articles on Ingeborg Bachmann, Jutta Brückner, Luc Besson, and G. W. Pabst. At present she is coediting a volume on German popular film with Randall Halle
Der Weg zur weiblichen Autonomie. Zur Psychologie der Selbstwerdung im literarischen Werk von Lou Andreas-Salome
Edmund Spenser at Kilcolman Castle
As part of a broader study of the Elizabethan colonization of Munster, the home of a member of the colonial elite was the object of four seasons of fieldwork, 1993–96. Kilcolman Castle in north County Cork now comprises a ruined tower-house and some mounds of masonry overlooking Kilcolman Bog. The castle and 3,000 acres had been granted to the poet Edmund Spenser, who refurbished and occupied it from 1588 to 1598, when Tyrone's rebellion burned K…
Entertaining Auteurism
German popular filmmakers who participated in the Denk ich an Deutschland series brought a range of conflicting impulses to their meditations on Germany, including the universalizing tendencies of popular culture, together with the personal and political strains often present in documentary films. With varying degrees of success, each director agitates national identity via an idiosyncratic selfhood, a process which in turn expands our notions of…
They were Threatening Castration, Man
Somnolent Selfhood
Florian Illies's best seller Generation Golf: Eine Inspektion briefly alludes to the 1997 film Winterschläfer, underscoring its young leads' affinities with his own apolitical generation. Though Illies at most chides his contemporaries for their smugly integrated selfhood, the film's director, Tom Tykwer, clinically atomizes his own characters' phlegmatic tendencies and reveals a morose and immobilized German identity. Filmic allusions to Wim Wen…
Utopian Spaces and Their Everyday Traces in Thomas Stuber’s In den Gängen (2018)
This article examines utopian elements in Thomas Stuber’s 2018 film In den Gängen. Despite the neoliberal forces that constrain a group of supermarket shelf stackers in the former East Germany, the film’s characters exhibit congenial bonds in the face of alienated work. Strikingly, their encounters with machines also convey an other-directedness and improvised conviviality, or energy that enables them to devise bonds in fleeting moments. As much …
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