Owen Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 5952922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7018-8673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Berlin
Can there be another European city that has undergone so many dramatic transformations over the past hundred years as Berlin? The city has seen so much of history, created, and been the subject of, so many stories, and thus comprises so many versions of itself. The present article explores how Berlin films contain multiple historical and textual palimpsests, focussing on Walther Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Great City as the urtext of all sub…
Finding common ground
The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
In attempting to answer the vexed question of what the so-called Berlin School is—the question that pervades this stimulating, first comprehensive monograph on the topic—Marco Abel deploys the famo
Redeeming the demon? The legacy of the Stasi in Das Leben der Anderen
The Lives of Others (2006) has been a phenomenally successful film, winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Feature in 2007. Yet despite the critical acclaim it has received abroad, in Germany reactions have been more mixed. Many commentators, especially historians, have been at pains to point out that the transformation of the Stasi officer into the guardian angel of his target is wholly unrealistic in the context of the GDR. However, many of the sam…
Border Exchanges
Although they are an important feature on the landscape of European cinema, the film festivals and their precise role have rarely been explored. There has been a tendency to use Cannes as representative of all the others, since it indubitably has the highest profile, but can it truly reflect the activities of the myriad other events across the continent? Moreover, the abiding impression of the festival each spring on the Riviera is that it is an …
Finding common ground
Border Exchanges
Although they are an important feature on the landscape of European cinema, the film festivals and their precise role have rarely been explored. There has been a tendency to use Cannes as representative of all the others, since it indubitably has the highest profile, but can it truly reflect the activities of the myriad other events across the continent? Moreover, the abiding impression of the festival each spring on the Riviera is that it is an …
Border Exchanges
Although they are an important feature on the landscape of European cinema, the film festivals and their precise role have rarely been explored. There has been a tendency to use Cannes as representative of all the others, since it indubitably has the highest profile, but can it truly reflect the activities of the myriad other events across the continent? Moreover, the abiding impression of the festival each spring on the Riviera is that it is an …
Redeeming the demon? The legacy of the Stasi in Das Leben der Anderen
The Lives of Others (2006) has been a phenomenally successful film, winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Feature in 2007. Yet despite the critical acclaim it has received abroad, in Germany reactions have been more mixed. Many commentators, especially historians, have been at pains to point out that the transformation of the Stasi officer into the guardian angel of his target is wholly unrealistic in the context of the GDR. However, many of the sam…
The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
In attempting to answer the vexed question of what the so-called Berlin School is—the question that pervades this stimulating, first comprehensive monograph on the topic—Marco Abel deploys the famo
Finding common ground
Berlin
Can there be another European city that has undergone so many dramatic transformations over the past hundred years as Berlin? The city has seen so much of history, created, and been the subject of, so many stories, and thus comprises so many versions of itself. The present article explores how Berlin films contain multiple historical and textual palimpsests, focussing on Walther Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Great City as the urtext of all sub…
Art (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · History (2 works)