Xan Holt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xan Holt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xan |
| FAMILY NAME | Holt |
| SIGNATURE | HOLT X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Picture This”
Olivia Wenzel’s novel 1000 Serpentinen Angst (2020) employs a mode of ekphrastic writing that draws distorted images of the East German past into question while challenging patterns of ‘attributive vision’ operative in racializing perceptual habits. Though most of the novel traces the narrator’s struggles to carve out spaces of community, acceptance, and safety in today’s Federal Republic, its central section orbits around descriptions of photogr…
Willy Haas in Bombay
This archival piece presents an excerpted translation from the memoirs of Willy Haas, Die Literarische Welt (1958). Haas was a Czech-German writer and scenarist who migrated to Bombay during the Nazi purge of European Jews. The translation, by Xan Holt, offers rich atmospheric and technical details about an underdocumented period in Indian film history. The framing commentary by Debashree Mukherjee goes deeper into the histories coded in the exce…
German Netflix Culture
Time Machine TV
The German sci-fi series Dark depicts the disturbance of a small German town by the introduction of time travel technology. But as the first ‘Netflix Original’ produced in Germany and distributed on the international media company’s online platform, the show itself disrupts a long tradition of linear television through its form and reflects on this disruption in its content. Though the characters in Dark focus on the philosophical, theological, a…
German Netflix Culture
Time Machine TV
The German sci-fi series Dark depicts the disturbance of a small German town by the introduction of time travel technology. But as the first ‘Netflix Original’ produced in Germany and distributed on the international media company’s online platform, the show itself disrupts a long tradition of linear television through its form and reflects on this disruption in its content. Though the characters in Dark focus on the philosophical, theological, a…
German Netflix Culture
Time Machine TV
The German sci-fi series Dark depicts the disturbance of a small German town by the introduction of time travel technology. But as the first ‘Netflix Original’ produced in Germany and distributed on the international media company’s online platform, the show itself disrupts a long tradition of linear television through its form and reflects on this disruption in its content. Though the characters in Dark focus on the philosophical, theological, a…
Willy Haas in Bombay
This archival piece presents an excerpted translation from the memoirs of Willy Haas, Die Literarische Welt (1958). Haas was a Czech-German writer and scenarist who migrated to Bombay during the Nazi purge of European Jews. The translation, by Xan Holt, offers rich atmospheric and technical details about an underdocumented period in Indian film history. The framing commentary by Debashree Mukherjee goes deeper into the histories coded in the exce…
“Picture This”
Olivia Wenzel’s novel 1000 Serpentinen Angst (2020) employs a mode of ekphrastic writing that draws distorted images of the East German past into question while challenging patterns of ‘attributive vision’ operative in racializing perceptual habits. Though most of the novel traces the narrator’s struggles to carve out spaces of community, acceptance, and safety in today’s Federal Republic, its central section orbits around descriptions of photogr…
Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · German (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Affordance (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art, Aesthetics, and Perception (1 work)