Brigitte Peucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5779030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brigitte Peucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brigitte |
| FAMILY NAME | Peucker |
| SIGNATURE | PEUCKER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4114-1120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hitchcock's Undertexts
This article explores the way in which the generative capacity of language inflects objects and props in several films by Alfred Hitchcock, focusing in particular on Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951). Camera angle and framing, the duration of the shot, the close-up or the long shot – all give shape to the filmed object. But why is language – or its absence – not mentioned among the set of operations that determines cinematic objects? In…
Incorporating Images. Film and the Rival Arts
The Material Image in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften
Looking and Touching
Looking and Touching: Spectacle and Collection in Sontag’s Volcano Lover Brigitte Peucker (bio) Not altogether surprisingly, Susan Sontag’s self-styled romance serves as a forum for the expression of ideas of the visual that have their origin in the 18th-century—ideas that have recently been theorized and reinvigorated by a postmodern interest in the gaze. 1 Intrigued with the multitudinous forms of 18th-century interest in the image, Sontag’s no…
Incorporating Images
Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing as they pertain to film and situates them in a theoretical framework. The figure of the human body t…
Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition
Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition
Arcadia to Elysium. Preromantic Modes in 18th Century Germany
Poetic Descent in Eichendorff’s Lyric
NotesTheodor Adorno, “Zum Gedächtnis Eichendorffs,” Noten zur Literatur, vol. 1 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1958), pp. 105–43.Adorno does not ignore Eichendorff’s policies: “Wieviel an Eichendorff aus der Perspektive des despossedierten Feudalen stammt, ist so offenbar, dass gesellschaftliche Kritik daran albern wäre.... Seine Überlegenheit über alle Reaktionäre, die heute die Hand nach ihm ausstrecken, bewährt sich daran, dass er, wie die gros…
Poetic Descent in Eichendorff’s Lyric
NotesTheodor Adorno, “Zum Gedächtnis Eichendorffs,” Noten zur Literatur, vol. 1 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1958), pp. 105–43.Adorno does not ignore Eichendorff’s policies: “Wieviel an Eichendorff aus der Perspektive des despossedierten Feudalen stammt, ist so offenbar, dass gesellschaftliche Kritik daran albern wäre.... Seine Überlegenheit über alle Reaktionäre, die heute die Hand nach ihm ausstrecken, bewährt sich daran, dass er, wie die gros…
Arcadia to Elysium. Preromantic Modes in 18th Century Germany
Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition
Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition
Incorporating Images
Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing as they pertain to film and situates them in a theoretical framework. The figure of the human body t…
Looking and Touching
Looking and Touching: Spectacle and Collection in Sontag’s Volcano Lover Brigitte Peucker (bio) Not altogether surprisingly, Susan Sontag’s self-styled romance serves as a forum for the expression of ideas of the visual that have their origin in the 18th-century—ideas that have recently been theorized and reinvigorated by a postmodern interest in the gaze. 1 Intrigued with the multitudinous forms of 18th-century interest in the image, Sontag’s no…
The Material Image in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften
Incorporating Images. Film and the Rival Arts
Hitchcock's Undertexts
This article explores the way in which the generative capacity of language inflects objects and props in several films by Alfred Hitchcock, focusing in particular on Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951). Camera angle and framing, the duration of the shot, the close-up or the long shot – all give shape to the filmed object. But why is language – or its absence – not mentioned among the set of operations that determines cinematic objects? In…
Art (9 works) · Literature (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Romance (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Geography (2 works)