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Framing attention : windows on modern German culture /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801884896
  • 9780801884894
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 700.943/0904 22
LOC classification:
  • NX650.W57 K64 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Menzel's rear window -- Richard Wagner and the framing of modern empathy -- Early cinema and the windows of empire -- Underground vision -- Windows 33/45 -- Fluxus television -- The nation's new windows -- Epilogue : "Berliner Fenster."
Review: "In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window - in both a literal and a figurative sense - as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity." "Koepnick examines the role and representation of window frames in modern German culture - in painting, photography, architecture, and literature, on the stage and in public transportation systems, on the film screen and on television. He presents such frames as interfaces that negotiate competing visions of past and present, body and community, attentiveness and distraction. From Adolph Menzel's window paintings of the 1840s to Nam June Paik's experiments with television screens, from Richard Wagner's retooling of the proscenium stage to Adolf Hitler's use of a window as a means of political self-promotion, Framing Attention offers a theoretically incisive understanding of how windows shape and reframe the way we see the world around us and our place within it."--Jacket.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Carleton University, AVRC Open-stacks NX650.W57 K64 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16055000393

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Menzel's rear window -- Richard Wagner and the framing of modern empathy -- Early cinema and the windows of empire -- Underground vision -- Windows 33/45 -- Fluxus television -- The nation's new windows -- Epilogue : "Berliner Fenster."

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