Challenging contemporary enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity, the book calls for rethinking ‘psychology’ as an... Læs mere
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Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization,... Læs mere
Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever... Læs mere
Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism, and in the midst of the crisis of Capitalism, Karl Marx' ideas, at least in part, are back en vogue. He is often invoked, yet in a way that is ignorant of him or his work.
Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A... Læs mere
Bela Balazs's two works, Visible Man and The Spirit of Film, are published here for the first time in full English translation. The... Læs mere
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years... Læs mere
With six Academy Awards, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish... Læs mere
a comprehensive and detailed analysis of German post-unification film an insightful account of the representation of east Germans since the collapse of Communism a useful contribution to the current debates about German identity