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Book SynopsisFeaturing a wide range of valuable case studies, Exhibiting the German Past offers a unique perspective on the developing relationship between museums and visual media.
Trade Review'Illuminating and fully researched essays... Highly Recommended.' -- B. W. Vetruba Choice Magazine vol 53:11:2016
Table of ContentsIntroduction (Peter M. McIsaac and Gabriele Mueller) 1. The "Museal Gaze" and "Civic Seeing": City, Film and Museum in Wim Wenders' Der Himmel uber Berlin (Simon Ward) 2. Refracted Memory: Museums, Film, and Visual Culture in Urban Space (Mark W. Rectanus) 3. Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Unser taglich Brot: Preservation, the Food Industry, and the Interrogation of Visual Evidence (Alice Kuzniar) 4. The Concealed Curator: Constructed Authenticity in Uli Edel's Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex (Catriona Firth) 5. Remembering and Historicizing Socialism: The Private and Amateur Musealization of East Germany's Everyday Life (Anne Winkler) 6. Object Lessons: Visuality and Tactility in Museums of the Socialist Everyday (Jonathan Bach) 7. Historical Museum Meets Docu-Drama: The Recipient's Experiential Involvement in the Second World War (Stephan Jaeger) 8. Between Education and Entertainment: Visual Musealizations of the Nazi Past in Harlan-Im Schatten von Jud Suss (2008) & Jud Suss-Film ohne Gewissen (2009/2010) (Annika Orich and Florentine Strzelczyk) 9. Moving Statues: Arthur Grimm, The "Entartete Kunst" Exhibition, and Installation Photography as Standfotografie (Kathryn M. Floyd) 10. "In a Hundred Years of Cinema ...": History and Musealization in Harun Farocki's Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik in elf Jahrzehnten (Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, 2006) (Christine Sprengler) 11. Sex on Display: Sexual Science and the Exhibition PopSex! (Michael Thomas Taylor and Annette F. Timm) 12. Spaces in Motion and Cinematic Experiences: The Permanent Exhibition Film of the Deutsche Kinemathek-Museum fur Film und Fernsehen (Museum for Film and Television) (Peter Manz)
