Steffen Hantke
Biographic Data
| ID | 5870001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steffen Hantke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steffen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hantke |
| SIGNATURE | HANTKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sogang University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Politics of Cultural Nostalgia: Don’t Worry Darling and the Fifties
Nostalgia for an idealized version of the U.S. during the 1950s, often referred to as “fifties nostalgia,” has long been a constituent element in right-wing politics and thus a target of progressive political critique. Recapitulating the thematic, narrative, and aesthetic features of earlier films dedicated to this critique, Olivia Wilde’s film Don’t Worry Darling (2022) critiques the misogyny inherent in Fifties nostalgia as part of recent Trump…
Machines in the Garden: De-Gothicizing the American Pastoral in Tales from the Loop
The television series Tales from the Loop, released in 2022, launches an ambitious attempt to revise the traditional gothic iconography of the violent intrusion of technology into pastoral spaces. Mapping out a spatially and temporally defamiliarized county in the American Midwest, home to an enigmatic high-tech research facility nicknamed The Loop, the series employs an idiosyncratic visual style and a narrative strategy inspired by high moderni…
Doing Your Thing After the End of the World: How the Middle Class Survived the Apocalypse
Horror and the Holocaust: ‘Prestige Horror’ and Frank Pierson’s Conspiracy (2001)
In an article published in 2004, Picart and Frank examined the use of stylistic and thematic elements Holocaust cinema can borrow from the horror film. Their argument at the time was constrained by the availability and their choice of primary texts, but the recent emergence of what has been called ‘prestige horror’ invites viewers to revisit their critical arguments and positions. Since ‘prestige horror’s’ aesthetic strategies tend to challenge c…
No Exit: Class Anxiety and Gothic Suburbia in Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life
Bigger Than Life (1956) complicates the popular understanding of social demotion as the source of postwar bourgeois anxiety. The film daringly reframes suburban anxiety in class terms, severing the middle class from the ideal of upward social mobility and positing a suburbia where privilege has turned into entrapment
Armchair Adventurers: Technology on the Global Battlefield in Films about Drone Warfare
We Own the Sky: Jet Airplanes and Cold-War Propaganda in American Cinema after the Korean War
A cycle of melodramatic American war films celebrating military jet airplanes and pilots after the Korean War, produced with military support, served as Cold War propaganda formulating normative psychological, social, and institutional positions toward military discipline and efficiency and normalizing the militarization of American society
When I Was a Kid, the Future Was Different”: Corporate Utopianism in Brad Bird's Tomorrowland
Hitchcock at War: Shadow of a Doubt, Wartime Propaganda, and the Director as Star
Among Hitchcock's films released during World War II, Shadow of a Doubt (1943) occupies an uneasy position between apolitical melodrama and overtly political thriller. Reading the film as a comment on the home-front experience opens up new possibilities to reassess it as a complex piece of wartime propaganda
Nostalgia for cult TV: Repackaging the West German television movie
The discourse of ‘cult’ applied to West German made-for-television films from the 1970s as part of their DVD release after 2000 signals not only a shift in the cultural categories of assessment but also a nostalgia for television as a medium capable of assembling a mass audience around a controversial social or political issue. Based on a selective appropriation of genre markers, director's star personae, and textual eccentricities, the shift fro…
The Road Movie on Television and the Cold War Mapping of America: Route 66, The Fugitive, The Invaders
Bringing the road movie to television, Route 66 (1960–64), The Fugitive (1963–67), and The Invaders (1967–68) marked the shift, by way of spatial mapping and visual representation, from a recognition of national diversity to the foreclosure of such openness in a gesture of Cold War paranoia
Star Trek 's Mirror Universe Episodes and US Military Culture through the Eyes of the Other
A German Hero for the Cold War: Wolfgang F. Henschel’s Alpha Alpha (1972)
Rebellion of the German Seniors: Demographic Dystopia as “Event Television”
Compounding anxieties about an aging population and the neoliberal encroachment on the welfare state, the German television miniseries Rebellion of the Elderly (2007) attempts to intervene critically in the political debate, nostalgically citing a medial genealogy of “event television” broadcasts reaching back to the 1960s. Keywords: demographicsdystopiaevent televisionGermanyscience fiction Strassenfeger Notes 1. Episode 1,“Die Geiselnahme” (“Th…
American horror film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium
The Aesthetics of Affect in the Shot-by-Shot Remakes of Psycho and Funny Games
Research Article| March 01 2010 The Aesthetics of Affect in the Shot-by-Shot Remakes of Psycho and Funny Games Steffen Hantke Steffen Hantke Sogang University [email protected] Steffen Hantke has written extensively on contemporary literature, film, and culture. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature (Peter Lang, 1994), as well as editor of Horror, a special topics issue of Paradoxa (2002), Horror: Creating and…
Bush's America and the Return of Cold War Science Fiction: Alien Invasion in Invasion, Threshold , and Surface
In 2005, three U.S. television networks launched science fiction shows about alien invasion that commented critically on conditions in the United States after 9/11. Although their close alignment with films from the 1950s limited the efficiency of their critique, their conservative context re-situated them as moderately oppositional texts
The Military Horror Film: Speculations on a Hybrid Genre
The Decline of the Literary Horror Market in the 1990s and Dell's Abyss Series
CFP: 2008 Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association
Japanese Horror Under Western Eyes: Social Class and Global Culture in Miike Takashi’s Audition
In the Belly of the Mechanical Beast: Technological Environments in the Alien Films
Surgical Strikes and Prosthetic Warriors: The Soldier’s Body in Contemporary Science Fiction
In a series of science-fiction novels describing future warfare—Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959), Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War (1972), and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game (1985)—the technologically augmented body serves as a site of anxiety. Cultural and social fears about what it means specifically to be male or generally to be human are expressed and negotiated here. These fears are triggered by the complex realization that the prom…
Deconstructing Horror: Commodities in the Fiction of Jonathan Carroll and Kathe Koja
The Military Horror Film: Speculations on a Hybrid Genre
When I Was a Kid, the Future Was Different”: Corporate Utopianism in Brad Bird's Tomorrowland
Bush's America and the Return of Cold War Science Fiction: Alien Invasion in Invasion, Threshold , and Surface
In 2005, three U.S. television networks launched science fiction shows about alien invasion that commented critically on conditions in the United States after 9/11. Although their close alignment with films from the 1950s limited the efficiency of their critique, their conservative context re-situated them as moderately oppositional texts
Nostalgia for cult TV: Repackaging the West German television movie
The discourse of ‘cult’ applied to West German made-for-television films from the 1970s as part of their DVD release after 2000 signals not only a shift in the cultural categories of assessment but also a nostalgia for television as a medium capable of assembling a mass audience around a controversial social or political issue. Based on a selective appropriation of genre markers, director's star personae, and textual eccentricities, the shift fro…
Deconstructing Horror: Commodities in the Fiction of Jonathan Carroll and Kathe Koja
Surgical Strikes and Prosthetic Warriors: The Soldier’s Body in Contemporary Science Fiction
In a series of science-fiction novels describing future warfare—Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959), Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War (1972), and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game (1985)—the technologically augmented body serves as a site of anxiety. Cultural and social fears about what it means specifically to be male or generally to be human are expressed and negotiated here. These fears are triggered by the complex realization that the prom…
In the Belly of the Mechanical Beast: Technological Environments in the Alien Films
Japanese Horror Under Western Eyes: Social Class and Global Culture in Miike Takashi’s Audition
CFP: 2008 Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association
The Decline of the Literary Horror Market in the 1990s and Dell's Abyss Series
American horror film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium
The Aesthetics of Affect in the Shot-by-Shot Remakes of Psycho and Funny Games
Research Article| March 01 2010 The Aesthetics of Affect in the Shot-by-Shot Remakes of Psycho and Funny Games Steffen Hantke Steffen Hantke Sogang University [email protected] Steffen Hantke has written extensively on contemporary literature, film, and culture. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature (Peter Lang, 1994), as well as editor of Horror, a special topics issue of Paradoxa (2002), Horror: Creating and…
Bush's America and the Return of Cold War Science Fiction: Alien Invasion in Invasion, Threshold , and Surface
In 2005, three U.S. television networks launched science fiction shows about alien invasion that commented critically on conditions in the United States after 9/11. Although their close alignment with films from the 1950s limited the efficiency of their critique, their conservative context re-situated them as moderately oppositional texts
The Military Horror Film: Speculations on a Hybrid Genre
Rebellion of the German Seniors: Demographic Dystopia as “Event Television”
Compounding anxieties about an aging population and the neoliberal encroachment on the welfare state, the German television miniseries Rebellion of the Elderly (2007) attempts to intervene critically in the political debate, nostalgically citing a medial genealogy of “event television” broadcasts reaching back to the 1960s. Keywords: demographicsdystopiaevent televisionGermanyscience fiction Strassenfeger Notes 1. Episode 1,“Die Geiselnahme” (“Th…
A German Hero for the Cold War: Wolfgang F. Henschel’s Alpha Alpha (1972)
Nostalgia for cult TV: Repackaging the West German television movie
The discourse of ‘cult’ applied to West German made-for-television films from the 1970s as part of their DVD release after 2000 signals not only a shift in the cultural categories of assessment but also a nostalgia for television as a medium capable of assembling a mass audience around a controversial social or political issue. Based on a selective appropriation of genre markers, director's star personae, and textual eccentricities, the shift fro…
The Road Movie on Television and the Cold War Mapping of America: Route 66, The Fugitive, The Invaders
Bringing the road movie to television, Route 66 (1960–64), The Fugitive (1963–67), and The Invaders (1967–68) marked the shift, by way of spatial mapping and visual representation, from a recognition of national diversity to the foreclosure of such openness in a gesture of Cold War paranoia
Star Trek 's Mirror Universe Episodes and US Military Culture through the Eyes of the Other
Hitchcock at War: Shadow of a Doubt, Wartime Propaganda, and the Director as Star
Among Hitchcock's films released during World War II, Shadow of a Doubt (1943) occupies an uneasy position between apolitical melodrama and overtly political thriller. Reading the film as a comment on the home-front experience opens up new possibilities to reassess it as a complex piece of wartime propaganda
We Own the Sky: Jet Airplanes and Cold-War Propaganda in American Cinema after the Korean War
A cycle of melodramatic American war films celebrating military jet airplanes and pilots after the Korean War, produced with military support, served as Cold War propaganda formulating normative psychological, social, and institutional positions toward military discipline and efficiency and normalizing the militarization of American society
When I Was a Kid, the Future Was Different”: Corporate Utopianism in Brad Bird's Tomorrowland
Armchair Adventurers: Technology on the Global Battlefield in Films about Drone Warfare
No Exit: Class Anxiety and Gothic Suburbia in Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life
Bigger Than Life (1956) complicates the popular understanding of social demotion as the source of postwar bourgeois anxiety. The film daringly reframes suburban anxiety in class terms, severing the middle class from the ideal of upward social mobility and positing a suburbia where privilege has turned into entrapment
Horror and the Holocaust: ‘Prestige Horror’ and Frank Pierson’s Conspiracy (2001)
In an article published in 2004, Picart and Frank examined the use of stylistic and thematic elements Holocaust cinema can borrow from the horror film. Their argument at the time was constrained by the availability and their choice of primary texts, but the recent emergence of what has been called ‘prestige horror’ invites viewers to revisit their critical arguments and positions. Since ‘prestige horror’s’ aesthetic strategies tend to challenge c…
Doing Your Thing After the End of the World: How the Middle Class Survived the Apocalypse
Machines in the Garden: De-Gothicizing the American Pastoral in Tales from the Loop
The television series Tales from the Loop, released in 2022, launches an ambitious attempt to revise the traditional gothic iconography of the violent intrusion of technology into pastoral spaces. Mapping out a spatially and temporally defamiliarized county in the American Midwest, home to an enigmatic high-tech research facility nicknamed The Loop, the series employs an idiosyncratic visual style and a narrative strategy inspired by high moderni…
The Politics of Cultural Nostalgia: Don’t Worry Darling and the Fifties
Nostalgia for an idealized version of the U.S. during the 1950s, often referred to as “fifties nostalgia,” has long been a constituent element in right-wing politics and thus a target of progressive political critique. Recapitulating the thematic, narrative, and aesthetic features of earlier films dedicated to this critique, Olivia Wilde’s film Don’t Worry Darling (2022) critiques the misogyny inherent in Fifties nostalgia as part of recent Trump…
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