Books by Matthias Uecker

Der vorliegende Band vereinigt ausgewählte Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Konferenz zum Thema «Berlin ¿ Wien ¿ Prag. Moderne, Minderheiten und Migration in der Zwischenkriegszeit», die im September 2000 an der Queen¿s University of Belfast stattfand. Die literaturwissenschaftlichen, publizistischen, judaistischen und architekturhistorischen Beiträge (in deutscher oder englischer Sprache) vermitteln neue Perspektiven in Bezug auf die spannungsreiche Kultur dieser Städte in den zwanziger und dreissiger Jahren. This volume comprises selected papers from the conference «Berlin ¿ Wien ¿ Prag. Modernity, Minorities and Migration in the Inter-War Period» which was held at the Queen¿s University of Belfast in September 2000. The contributions (in English or German) offer new perspectives on the exciting culture of these cities during the 1920s and 30s from a variety of disciplines: Literary History, Media Studies, Jewish Studies and History of Architecture.

Since the late 1990s, German cinema has gone through a period of astonishing productivity and success that has made it the focus of scholarly analysis once more. What can contemporary German cinema tell us about current German society and its problems? What are the distinguishing features of filmmaking in Germany today? This book analyses the representation of individual and collective behaviour in post-unification German cinema. It looks at performances of gender, ethnicity and nationality in a wide range of contemporary German films. Using Performance Theory as a framework, the book discusses how modern German identities are presented as conformist, liberating or subversive responses to external challenges. Theoretical considerations regarding the efficacy of performance and the dialectical relationship between transgression, resistance and normalization form the background for an analysis that investigates contemporary German films in terms of their function within the restructuring of post-unification German society.