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From: "Helene Zimmer-Loew (AATG)" <[log in to unmask]>
THE DIVISION ON TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMAN LITERATURE
invites proposals for three sessions on
VISUAL CULTURE IN 20TH-CENTURY GERMANY
for the 2001 MLA Convention, December 27-30 in New Orleans
In the twentieth century the German-language realm produced a
wealth of offerings across the spectrum of visual culture. From the
influential innovations of Expressionist painting, theater, and cinema
to the pioneering experiments in modern dance between the world
wars to the powerful propaganda films of National Socialism to the
post-1990 cross-pollination between theaters from the former East
and West Germany, visual culture has functioned as a vehicle
through which important political, aesthetic, sexual, economic, and
racial debates have been played out.
The Division encourages submissions in all areas of 20th-century
German visual culture--including theater, film, television, dance,
musicals, stand-up comedy, performance art, painting, sculpture,
and architecture--which would accord with one of the following three
rubrics:
1) The politics of visual culture
(e.g., visual culture as the subject or object of political ideology)
2) Gender and visual culture
(e.g., performing the body, gender-bending, body language)
3) The aesthetics of visual culture
(e.g., blurring generic boundaries, German Studies and
Performance Studies, performance theory).
Send one-page abstracts by MARCH 12, 2001 to Gail Finney,
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or c/o German Department
University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
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Gail Finney
Professor of Comparative Literature and German
University of California
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-1125
Fax: (530) 752-2184
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