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Choreographing the Global in European Cinema and Theater

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230615458

ISBN: 978-1-349-37498-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 10, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

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Pages: 1 –29

[This book explores German artists’ critical engagement with the images and stories through which politicians and the media describe globalization. International relations, migration, work, and war provide the thematic foci of the subsequent four chapters. I examine cinematic and dramatic texts...
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Chapter 2Desiring the Global

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Pages: 31 –74

[If the bourgeois novel shaped how nineteenth- and twentieth-century readers felt themselves to be part of a nation, as Benedict Anderson has argued, then film has been the preeminent vehicle of an international and global imagination.2 The cinema was the first culture industry that produced for...
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Chapter 3Development and Migration

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Pages: 75 –104

[The term globalization did not gain wide currency until the 1990s, yet the process to which it refers was retrospectively given a much longer history that varied somewhat by discipline.1 While the rise of multinational and transnational economic entities, the accelerating speed and scope of...
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Chapter 4Traveling Counterpublics

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Pages: 105 –142

[A great deal of alarm about globalization results from the perception that privatization and deregulation, the watchwords of the neoliberal economy, are drastically curtailing the conditions under which a critical public discourse can be produced. Naomi Klein, for instance, remarks on the...
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Chapter 5Operation Media Storm

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Pages: 143 –177

[Between March 20 and May 1 of 2003, the United States and Britain along with a band of smaller nations invaded Iraq without approval by the United Nations (UN) Security Council in order to prevent Saddam Hussein’s government from deploying the weapons of mass destruction it allegedly possessed...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

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Pages: 179 –181

[I have devoted much of my professional life to thinking and writing about the ways in which the theatrical institution has for a very long time excluded or marginalized women and feminists as well as those considered alien to the German nation. In my first book, conceptualized in the 1980s, I...

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