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Books by the Department

Cities and Cinema
by Barbara Mennel
Films about cities abound. They provide fantasies for those who recognize their city and those for whom the city is a faraway dream or nightmare. What visions for the future and images of the past do city films offer?

The Archaeology of Anxiety
by Galina Rylkova
This book analyzes writings by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak and Victor Erofeev to reveal how the construct of the Silver Age was perpetuated and ingrained.

Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature
by Barbara Mennel
This book connects the invention of masochism by turn-of-the-century sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing and writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch to its contemporary appropriation by gay and lesbian filmmakers.

Sites of the Uncanny
by Eric Kligerman
This study tracks the transformation of Celan in postwar German culture and shows the extent to which his poetics accompany the country's memory politics after the Holocaust.

theatrum judaicum
by Galili Shahar
An exploration of the fruitful relationships between the avant garde movements of the early twentieth century and Jewish intellectual, literary, and artistic production...

Chris Marker
by Nora Alter
Chris Markers notorious reclusiveness has led to surprisingly few studies, and Nora M. Alter's Chris Marker presents the first English-language study of the unpredictable director.

German Literature of the High Middle Ages
by Will Hasty
This book demonstrates how the emergence of a vernacular literary culture in Germany was an important part of a broader cultural transformation in which medieval people began to redefine themselves.

Translating Culture: Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication
by Alexander Burak