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Book SynopsisJennifer L. Creech is Instructor of German at Oregon State University, USA. She is the author of
Mothers, Comrades and Outcasts in East German Women's Films (2016) and co-editor of
Spectacle: German Visual Culture, Vol. 2 (2015)
Thomas O. Haakeson is Associate Professor in Humanities & Sciences at California College of the Arts, USA. He is the author of
Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (2021), and co-editor of
Spectacle: German Visual Culture, Vol. 2 (2015)
Trade ReviewFrom biblical arousals to RAF corpse art; from Joy's feminist pornography to Dr Bitch Ray's bodily interventions, there is much to admire in this thought-provoking essay collection on the visual culture and politics of the body in real-world German contexts. * Michael Hau, author of Performance Anxiety: Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism (2017), and Head of History, Monash University, Australia *
How to Make the Body is a rich, multi-faceted volume that demonstrates the value of focusing on the body, and embodiment, in examining various aspects of visual culture in 20th and 21st-century German contexts […] and with a strong and welcome emphasis on feminist and queer approaches. * Rick McCormick, Professor of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch, University of Minnesota, USA *
Engaging with a diverse array of events, texts, and representations of lived experience,
How to Make the Body powerfully mobilizes a range of cutting-edge theoretical approaches to generate new understandings of embodiment vital to German Studies and beyond. * Sara F. Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago, USA *
Table of Contents1. Jennifer L. Creech and Thomas O. Haakenson, “Introduction: How to Make the Body” 2. Alison Stewart, “Arousal, the Bible, and Bruegel’s Codpieces: The Male Body in Early Modern Visual Culture” 3. David Ciarlo, “The Construction of the Aryan Body in German Visual Advertising, 1908-33” 4. Jill Holaday, “Die Gruppe Zero: Transforming Trauma to Transcendence” 5.Ilka Rasch, “RAF Corpse Art: The Living Dead in the Work of Gerhard Richter, Ernst Volland, Astrid Proll and Andres Veiel” 6. Sebastian Heiduschke, “Penis-bodied Specimen in the Exhibit
Körperwelten (‘Body Worlds’)” 7. Jennifer L. Creech, “For the Porn Connoisseur: Cinema Joy” 8. Zachary Fitzpatrick, “Orientalized Bodies at Work: Cultural Zaniness in Berlin's
Sayonara Tokyo Revue” 9. Thomas O. Haakenson, “Ai Weiwei’s Body in Berlin” 10. Jamele Watkins, “Afrolocken: Natural Hair in German Literature and Media” 11. Faye Stewart, “Poppthority: The Politics of Dr. Bitch Ray’s Bodily Interventions” 12. Lucy Ashton, “Becoming Invisible/ Against Visibility: Hito Steyerl’s
How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational. MOV File”
