Books published by Verlag Peter Lang

The relationship between different media has emerged as one of the most important areas of research in contemporary cultural and literary studies. But how should we conceive of the relationship between texts and images today? This title investigates the effects of different forms of representation in modern European and American literature.

How has 1968 been (re)produced and/or contested within different national cultures and how do these processes reflect national preoccupations with order, individual freedom, youth culture and self-expression? Is there a collective memory of 1968 and does this memory cross national boundaries? This title deals with these questions.

Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West

A collection of essays that attempts to expand notion of Black Atlantic beyond its original racial, geographical, linguistic and cultural borders while acknowledging its ability to disturb established historical truths and to go beyond traditional dichotomies, thereby providing an essential tool for cross-cultural understanding.

This book examines the use, status and context of Italian Renaissance plaquettes, whether they were articles for personal adornment, liturgical objects, domestic artefacts, or models for architecture and painting.

This book covers the history of Polish cinema from 1989 up to the present in a broad political and cultural context, looking at both the film industry and film artistry. It considers the main ideas behind the institutional changes in the Polish film industry after the collapse of communism and assesses how these ideas were implemented. In discussing artistry, the focus is on the genres which dominated the Polish cinematic landscape after 1989 and the most important directors.

Dance and Politics

Curriculum in Context

Contemporaries and historians have found it difficult to interpret the ambiguous relationship between National Socialism and Christianity. Both the Catholic and Protestant Churches tended to agree with National Socialists in their authoritarianism, their attacks on socialism and communism, and their campaign against the Versailles Treaty; but the doctrinal position of the Churches could not be reconciled with the principle of racism, a foreign policy of unlimited aggressive warfare, or a domestic agenda involving the complete subservience of Church to State. Important sections of the Nazi Party sought the complete extirpation of Christianity and its substitution by a purely racial religion, but considerations of expediency made it impossible for the National Socialist leadership to adopt this radical anti-Christian stance as official policy. The Kulturkampf Newsletters, which have not appeared in English since the 1930s, were produced by German Catholic exiles in France. They scrupulously document the tensions between various strands of Nazi policy, and the nature of the policy eventually adopted: this was to reduce the Churches¿ influence in all areas of public life through the use of every available means, yet without provoking the difficulties ¿ diplomatic as well as domestic ¿ which an openly declared war of extermination might have caused.

Scholars of Italian colonialism have been reluctant to acknowledge the influence that local populations and their culture had on Italians and on the ways in which they settled and administered the territories they occupied. In this title, the essays addresses the gap in Italian colonial/post-colonial studies.

The crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000 is not simply a struggle against dictatorship. This book traces the role of politicians and public intellectuals in media, civil society and the academy in producing and disseminating a politically usable historical narrative concerning ideas about patriotism, race, human rights and sovereignty.

In late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. This volume illuminates some of ways in which our relationship to trash has influenced and is influenced by cultural products including art, literature, film and museum culture.