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The history of voting in New Jersey: a study of the development of election machinery, 1664-1911
In: Rutgers University studies in history no. 8
Private Anxieties/Public Projections: "New Objectivity," Male Subjectivity, and Weimar Cinema
In: Women in German yearbook: feminist studies in German literature & culture, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 1-18
ISSN: 1940-512X
The so-called "New Objectivity" in the arts and culture of the Weimar Republic was characterized by an erosion of the boundary between the "high culture" associated with the bourgeois public sphere and new forms of mass culture directed at other classes in the emerging modern consumer society. Related to this erosion of boundaries were anxieties about the destabilization of traditional models of (national, ethnic, class, gender, sexual) identity. Change seemed especially threatening in its effect on traditional ("natural") gender roles, as can readily be demonstrated in G.W. Pabst's film Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926). Similar anxieties about gender are also crucial to subsequent developments in German culture and society. (RWM)
From "Caligari" to Dietrich: Sexual, Social, and Cinematic Discourses in Weimar Film
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 640-668
ISSN: 1545-6943
Politics and the Psyche: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Film TheoryExplorations in Film Theory: Selected Essays from "Ciné-Tracts.". Ron BurnettPsychoanalysis and Cultural Theory: Thresholds. James DonaldBreaking the Frame: Film Language and the Experience of Limits. Inez HedgesHis Other Half: Men Lo...
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 173-187
ISSN: 1545-6943
Productive Tensions: Teaching Films by German Women and Feminist Film Theory
In: Women in German yearbook: feminist studies in German literature & culture, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 83-97
ISSN: 1940-512X
German women filmmakers and feminist film theorists have been productive in different "realms" since the 1970s. Courses focusing on the two can be productive as well. After briefly discussing the political consequences of such courses, I sketch the historical development of filmmaking by women in West Germany from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Then I trace a shift in feminist film theory (predominantly Anglo-American, although influenced by French theory) from the 1970s to the 1980s. Finally, I discuss some comparable developments over the course of the 1980s in German films by women.
Walter Dean Burnham and "The System of 1896"
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 245-262
ISSN: 1527-8034
Anyone who has tried to teach undergraduates about the election of 1896 should instinctively appreciate Walter Dean Burnham's enormous contribution in making sense of that election and its aftermath. Waged between two rather uninteresting men over issues that defy easy understanding, the presidential contest of 1896 hardly stacks up with those of 1860 and 1932 as "critical" in the casual sense of the term. Perhaps if William Jennings Bryan had defeated William McKinley, or, better still, if the glamorous Theodore Roosevelt had been the victorious Republican candidate, or, best of all, if Roosevelt had won and immediately started a major war, the election of 1896 would more readily appear to have been the transforming event that modern scholars contend it was. But, alas, McKinley won, waited over a year before reluctantly waging even a minor war, and proved unwilling to make any significant departures in domestic policy. Compared to the election of Abraham Lincoln or that of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the contest of 1896 appears trivial. Who can blame undergraduates for yawning over the "Battle of the Standards"?
The Political Culture of the American Whigs, by Daniel Walker Howe
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 96, Heft 1, S. 171-172
ISSN: 1538-165X
Allan J. Lichtman, Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979) &20.00
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 347-350
ISSN: 1527-8034
The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures, by Paul Kleppner
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 94, Heft 4, S. 716-717
ISSN: 1538-165X