Berghahn Books imprint: 740 books
United Germany
Debating Processes and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Since the attempt to unite two parts of a country divided for four decades yielded contradictory results, this volume provides a balance sheet of the successes and failures of German unification during the first quarter century after the fall of the Wall. Five themes, ranging from the transfer of...
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating...
Destination London
German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The legacy of emigrés in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance. Focusing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, professional...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Travel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical...
Michael Haneke's Cinema
The Ethic of the Image
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke’s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis of,...
Mussolini's Dream Factory
Film Stardom in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism...
The Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work...
Remaking France
Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy. This book, examining as it does the Marshall Plan as the form of public diplomacy of the United States in France after World War Two, offers a timely historical case study. Current...
Elusive Promises
Planning in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently—as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning...
Social Movement Studies in Europe
The State of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant...
Nationalism and the Cinema in France
Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation’s sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about that relationship? What are the nuances, insider codes, and hidden history of the alignment between cinema and nationalism? Hugo Frey suggests...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Using a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians’ engagement with art. It focuses on both Durkheim and his contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work. The first five chapters consider Durkheim’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during...
Concentrationary Cinema
Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not...