Michelle Mattson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Mattson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattson |
| SIGNATURE | MATTSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Obligations of Memory? Gender and Historical Responsibility in Tanja Dückers's Himmelskörper and Arno Geiger's Es geht uns gut
In this article, I analyze Tanja Dückers's Himmelskörper (2003) and Arno Geiger's Es geht uns gut (2005) in the context of questions concerning remembering history and feminist ethics, specifically the development of care ethics from the early 1980s into the present. The purpose of the analysis is to understand what, if anything, gender and reproduction have to do with remembering and the obligations that remembering generates. I argue that the w…
Grete Weil, a Jewish Author
Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America
Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past. German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present
Friedrickson, Elke P, and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach, eds. Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present. Albany, NY SUNY Press, 2000. 320 pp. $24.95 hardcover. The seventeen essays in this anthology are edited papers that were presented at a conference at the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. The essays are such fascinating investigations that the reader wishes the collection of these papers…
Classical Kinship and Personal Responsibility
The Claims of Memory
Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification
Since unification, Germany has undergone profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, anti-Semitic incidents, and racist violence. This book will present the most recent findings on German public opinion, private attitudes, official policies, and right wing political developments. It will examine the dimensions, sources of, and remedies to anti-Semitism and xenophobia
From the True, the Good, the Beautiful to the Truly Beautiful Goods. Audience Identification Strategies on German "B-Television" Programs
German television threatens to become, for the most part, the bearer of advertising messages. This trend is explicit in the presentation of goods during blocks of advertising and in the promotion of merchandise through product placement. But, more importantly, it is implicitly visible in the tendency of programming concepts to conform to advertising strategies and of individual program segments to adopt the aesthetics of commercials. An inane pos…
Tatort
The academic study of television, as a subdivision of the study of popular culture, is rife with dissension over both television's character and its impact. Is it merely the epitome of manipulative mass culture? Is it the locus of subversive reception strategies?1 Or is it somehow a combination of the above: the contested site for the formation of public consciousness?2 No matter where critics place television, it seems no one feels completely co…
Farewell to the Gutenberg-Galaxy
The acceleration of technical development around 1800 released processes that the categories of the Gutenberg-Galaxy could no longer adequately describe. From then on, speed is produced and creates a kinetic high. Fashion replaces style, advertising replaces art, and filmic reality takes the place of aesthetic beauty [sch6ner Schein].1 Today, it has become a commonplace that designers and directors are the actual agents of social creativity, rath…
Fissures -- Dissonances -- Questions -- Visions
Cultural critics and other professional interpreters of semiotic systems pinpoint a fundamental change [Wende] in history within the disparate forms of 'computation' as the apologists prefer to call the symbiosis of communicative technologies and high-speed calculators. The diverse 'discourses of disappearance' of all possible realities and slices of reality that were written and published in the 1980s were based on this common assumption.1 They …
Introduction
Only 18 years ago, in 1981, British media critics Richard Collins and Vincent Porter wrote in their monograph on the WDR Arbeiterfilm: West German broadcasting has a plausible claim to being the most successful instance of public service broadcasting in the world.' Even then, this statement would probably have raised a few eyebrows not only among American television executives, but among American media critics as well. Yet, at the time, it was de…
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Drama und Dramaturgie Heiner Mullers zwischen 1956 und 1988
Refugees in Germany
Fifty youths (skinheads and heavy-metals) set out in November of 1990 rough up some niggers.' This terrorist attack in Eberswalde led to the death of Amadeu Antonio, a young Angolan refugee. A five day siege in September of 1991 on apartment buildings housing refugees in Hoyerswerda ended in the evacuation of all asylum seekers from the city while townspeople stood by, watched, and applauded. A year later, skinheads, commemorating their victory i…
The Theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz
Contents: The book explores the critical Volksstuecke of Franz Xaver Kroetz within the context of West German theater during the nineteen seventies, showing to what extent they both reflect and resist the New Subjectivism of Handke, Strauss etc
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz was arguably the most popular West German playwright of the seventies, and at the same time, one of the most explicitly political authors of that decade. His work sought to confront West German society with the victims of its own economic successes. And yet his aesthetic strategies and thematic emphases always seemed to hamper the realization of his political ambitions. Works of art that are generated on the basis of an explici…
Refugees in Germany
Fifty youths (skinheads and heavy-metals) set out in November of 1990 rough up some niggers.' This terrorist attack in Eberswalde led to the death of Amadeu Antonio, a young Angolan refugee. A five day siege in September of 1991 on apartment buildings housing refugees in Hoyerswerda ended in the evacuation of all asylum seekers from the city while townspeople stood by, watched, and applauded. A year later, skinheads, commemorating their victory i…
Farewell to the Gutenberg-Galaxy
The acceleration of technical development around 1800 released processes that the categories of the Gutenberg-Galaxy could no longer adequately describe. From then on, speed is produced and creates a kinetic high. Fashion replaces style, advertising replaces art, and filmic reality takes the place of aesthetic beauty [sch6ner Schein].1 Today, it has become a commonplace that designers and directors are the actual agents of social creativity, rath…
Fissures -- Dissonances -- Questions -- Visions
Cultural critics and other professional interpreters of semiotic systems pinpoint a fundamental change [Wende] in history within the disparate forms of 'computation' as the apologists prefer to call the symbiosis of communicative technologies and high-speed calculators. The diverse 'discourses of disappearance' of all possible realities and slices of reality that were written and published in the 1980s were based on this common assumption.1 They …
Introduction
Only 18 years ago, in 1981, British media critics Richard Collins and Vincent Porter wrote in their monograph on the WDR Arbeiterfilm: West German broadcasting has a plausible claim to being the most successful instance of public service broadcasting in the world.' Even then, this statement would probably have raised a few eyebrows not only among American television executives, but among American media critics as well. Yet, at the time, it was de…
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz was arguably the most popular West German playwright of the seventies, and at the same time, one of the most explicitly political authors of that decade. His work sought to confront West German society with the victims of its own economic successes. And yet his aesthetic strategies and thematic emphases always seemed to hamper the realization of his political ambitions. Works of art that are generated on the basis of an explici…
The Theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz
Contents: The book explores the critical Volksstuecke of Franz Xaver Kroetz within the context of West German theater during the nineteen seventies, showing to what extent they both reflect and resist the New Subjectivism of Handke, Strauss etc
Refugees in Germany
Fifty youths (skinheads and heavy-metals) set out in November of 1990 rough up some niggers.' This terrorist attack in Eberswalde led to the death of Amadeu Antonio, a young Angolan refugee. A five day siege in September of 1991 on apartment buildings housing refugees in Hoyerswerda ended in the evacuation of all asylum seekers from the city while townspeople stood by, watched, and applauded. A year later, skinheads, commemorating their victory i…
Drama und Dramaturgie Heiner Mullers zwischen 1956 und 1988
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification
Since unification, Germany has undergone profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, anti-Semitic incidents, and racist violence. This book will present the most recent findings on German public opinion, private attitudes, official policies, and right wing political developments. It will examine the dimensions, sources of, and remedies to anti-Semitism and xenophobia
From the True, the Good, the Beautiful to the Truly Beautiful Goods. Audience Identification Strategies on German "B-Television" Programs
German television threatens to become, for the most part, the bearer of advertising messages. This trend is explicit in the presentation of goods during blocks of advertising and in the promotion of merchandise through product placement. But, more importantly, it is implicitly visible in the tendency of programming concepts to conform to advertising strategies and of individual program segments to adopt the aesthetics of commercials. An inane pos…
Tatort
The academic study of television, as a subdivision of the study of popular culture, is rife with dissension over both television's character and its impact. Is it merely the epitome of manipulative mass culture? Is it the locus of subversive reception strategies?1 Or is it somehow a combination of the above: the contested site for the formation of public consciousness?2 No matter where critics place television, it seems no one feels completely co…
Farewell to the Gutenberg-Galaxy
The acceleration of technical development around 1800 released processes that the categories of the Gutenberg-Galaxy could no longer adequately describe. From then on, speed is produced and creates a kinetic high. Fashion replaces style, advertising replaces art, and filmic reality takes the place of aesthetic beauty [sch6ner Schein].1 Today, it has become a commonplace that designers and directors are the actual agents of social creativity, rath…
Fissures -- Dissonances -- Questions -- Visions
Cultural critics and other professional interpreters of semiotic systems pinpoint a fundamental change [Wende] in history within the disparate forms of 'computation' as the apologists prefer to call the symbiosis of communicative technologies and high-speed calculators. The diverse 'discourses of disappearance' of all possible realities and slices of reality that were written and published in the 1980s were based on this common assumption.1 They …
Introduction
Only 18 years ago, in 1981, British media critics Richard Collins and Vincent Porter wrote in their monograph on the WDR Arbeiterfilm: West German broadcasting has a plausible claim to being the most successful instance of public service broadcasting in the world.' Even then, this statement would probably have raised a few eyebrows not only among American television executives, but among American media critics as well. Yet, at the time, it was de…
The Claims of Memory
Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past. German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present
Friedrickson, Elke P, and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach, eds. Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present. Albany, NY SUNY Press, 2000. 320 pp. $24.95 hardcover. The seventeen essays in this anthology are edited papers that were presented at a conference at the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. The essays are such fascinating investigations that the reader wishes the collection of these papers…
Classical Kinship and Personal Responsibility
Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America
Grete Weil, a Jewish Author
The Obligations of Memory? Gender and Historical Responsibility in Tanja Dückers's Himmelskörper and Arno Geiger's Es geht uns gut
In this article, I analyze Tanja Dückers's Himmelskörper (2003) and Arno Geiger's Es geht uns gut (2005) in the context of questions concerning remembering history and feminist ethics, specifically the development of care ethics from the early 1980s into the present. The purpose of the analysis is to understand what, if anything, gender and reproduction have to do with remembering and the obligations that remembering generates. I argue that the w…
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