PUBLICATIONS

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• Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 299 pp.
• Window | Interface / Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics 2. Co-authored with Sabine Eckmann. St. Louis: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2007. Distributor: University of Chicago Press.
• [Grid < > Matrix] / Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetis 1. Co-authored with Sabine Eckmann. St. Louis: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2006. Distributor: University of Chicago Press.
• The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2002. 322 pp.
• Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 276 pp. (Awarded with the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, December 2000) 
• Nothungs Modernität: Wagners Ring und die Poesie der Macht im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1994. 270 pp.
  

• The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present. Co-edited with Stephan K. Schindler. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2007. 320pp. (For more info click here.)
• Caught by Politics: Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Co-edited with Sabine Eckmann. New York: Palgrave, 2007. (For more info click here.)
• Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture. Co-edited with Nora M. Alter. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. 257 pp.
  

• "Abenteuerliche Reisen? Walter Benjamin im Zeitalter neuer Medien." Text+Kritik. Heft 31/32: Walter Benjamin (February 2009): 120-133.
• "Unvergesslich? Science-Fiction und die Zukunft der Erinnerung." Frosch und Frankenstein: Bilder als Medium der Popularisierung von Wissenschaft. Eds. Bernd Hüppauf and Peter Weingart. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2009. 407-426.
• "Pause > Rewind > Play: Video Art in Cold War Germany." Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures. Eds. Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann. New York: Abrams, 2009. 206-220.
• "The Bearable Lightness of Being: People on a Sunday (1930)." Weimar Cinema: n Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era. Ed. Noah Isenberg. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 237-254.
• "Aura widziana na nowo. Benjamin i współczesna kultura wizualna." Kwartalnik Filmowy 64 (2008): 25-44.
• "The Sound of Ruins." German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins, Eds. Wilfried Wilms and William Rasch. New York: Palgrave, 2008. 193-208.
• "0-1: Riefenstahl and the Beauty of Soccer." Riefenstahl Screened: An Anthology of New Criticism. Eds. Neil Christian Pages, Mary Rhiel, and Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey. New York: Continuum, 2008. 52-70.
• "Unforgettable? Science, Prosthetic Memory, Film." Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences. Eds. Bernd Hüppauf and Peter Weingart. New York: Routledge, 2008. 283-300.
• "Free Fallin’: Tom Tykwer and the Aesthetics of Deceleration and Dislocation." The Germanic Review 82.1 (Winter 2007): 7-30. (Special Issue  on Newer German Cinema.)
• "Slow motion: Benjamin y las políticas de la desaceleración." Topografías de la modernidad. El pensamiento de Walter Benjamin. Eds. Dominik Finkelde, Teresa de la Garza, Francisco Mancera. México, D.F. 2007. 185-203.
• "Introduction: Against the Wall? The Global Imaginary of German Cinema." Co-authored with Stephan K. Schindler. The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present. Eds. Stephan K. Schindler and Lutz Koepnick. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 1-21.
• "Framing Sight: Modernism and Nazi Visual Culture." Legacies of Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950. Eds. Patrizia McBride , Richard W. McCormick, and Monika Zagar. New York: Palgrave, 2007. 177-199.
• "Dietrich’s Face." Dietrich Icon. Eds. Gerd Gemünden and Mary R. Desjardins. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 43-59.
• "Introduction: Caught by Politics." Co-authored with Sabine Eckmann. Caught by Politics: Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture.Eds. Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick. New York: Palgrave, 2007. 1-13.
• "Mad Love: Re-Membering Berlin in Hollywood Exile.." Caught by Politics: Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture.Eds. Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick. New York: Palgrave, 2007. 195-222.
• "Bits_and_Pieces: German Art in the Age of Global Networks." Reality Bites. Making Avant-Garde Art in Postwall Germany. Ed. Sabine Eckmann. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007. 102-149.
• "Bits_and_Pieces: Deutsche Kunst im Zeitalter globaler Netzwerke." Reality Bites. Kunst nach dem Mauerfall. Ed. Sabine Eckmann. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007. 102-149.
• "Komik als Waffe? Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch und das Dritte Reich." Mediale Mobilmachung II. Hg. Harro Segeberg und Knut Hickethier. Munich: Fink Verlag, 2006. 41-70.
• "Langsamkeit: Benjamin und die Politik der Entschleunigung." Trajekte: Zeitschrift des Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin 7.13 (September 2006) 23-28.
• "Face/Off: Hitler and Weimar Political Photography." Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany: Text as Spectacle. Ed. Gail Finney. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 214-234.
• "Rilke's Rumblings and Lang's Bang." Monatshefte 98.2 (2006): 198-214. (Special Issue on The Art of Hearing.)
• "Tonspur und Gewalt: Zur Akustik des zeitgenössischen Actionkinos." Hörstürze: Akustik und Gewalt. Eds. Nicola Gess, Florian Schreiner und Manuela Schulz. Würzburg: Könighausen und Neumann, 2005. 131-146.
• "Benjamins Stille." Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarden. Ed. Cornelia Klinger and Wolfgang Müller-Funk. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004. 155-170. (Revised and expanded version of 2002 publication in Transit.)
• "Windows 33/45: Nazi Politics and the Cult of Stardom." Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe. Eds. Eric Weitz and Angelica Fenner. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 43-66.
• "Introduction: Sound Matters." Co-authored with Nora M. Alter. Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture. Eds. Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. 1-32.
• "Benjamin’s Silence." Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture. Eds. Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. 117-129.
• スペクタクル、バロック悲劇、決断のポリティクス――ベンヤミンによるバロックとワイマールの重ね読み. In:『舞台芸術』06 / Performing Arts 6 (July 2004): 101-128. Japanese translation of, "The Spectacle, the Trauerspiel, and the Politics of Resolution: Benjamin Reading the Baroque Reading Weimar.” Trans. Hosomi Kazuyuki.
• "Der Spiegel als Abgrund: Versuch über das U-Bahnfenster." Kritische Berichte: Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 32.2 (2004): 39-52. (Special Issue on "Spiegel und Spiegelungen".)
• "Photographs and Memories." South Central Review 21.1 (Spring 2004): 94-129. (Special Issue on "The Politics and Aesthetics of Memory.")
• "’Amerika gibt’s überhaupt nicht’: Notes On The German Heritage Film." German Pop Culture: How ‘American’ Is It? Ed. Agnes Mueller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
• "Doubling the Double: Robert Siodmak in Hollywood." New German Critique 89 (Spring / Summer 2003): 81-104. (Special Issue on Film and Exile.)
• "Kafka Calling on the Camera Phone." Journal of Visual Culture 2.3. (2003): 353-356.
• "Inscriptions of Time / Topographies of History: The Photographs of Alan Cohen." Exhibition brochure, Washington University Gallery of Art, 2003.
• "’Nochmal! Nochmal!’" Erpresstes Lachen im deutsch-jüdischen Melodrama der Gegenwart." Lachen über Hitler—Auschwitzgelächter? Filmkomödie, Satire und Holocaust. Eds. Margrit Frölich, Hanno Loewy, and Heinz Steinert. Munich: Edition Text und Kritik, 2003. 315-334.
• "Reframing the Past: Heritage Cinema and Holocaust in the 1990s." New German Critique 87 (Fall 2002): 47-82. (Special Issue on Postwall Cinema.)
• "'Honor Your German Masters': History, Memory, and National Identity in Joseph Vilsmaier's Comedian Harmonists." Light Motives: Perspectives on Popular German Cinema. Eds. Margaret McCarthy and Randall Halle. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 349-375.
• "Stereoscopic Vision: Sight and Community in Wagner's Die Meistersinger." Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation. Ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2003. 73-97.
• "Zwischen Textanalyse und Kulturwissenschaft: Zum Standort deutscher Filmstudien in den Vereinigten Staaten." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 27.1 (2002): 198-216.
• "Filmwissenschaft als Cultural Studies: Ausgewählte Publikationen amerikanischer Filmwssenschaftler/innen seit 1990 zum deutschen Kino." Internationales Archiv zur Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 27.1 (2002): 216- 224.
• "Zapping Channels: Uwe Johnson, Margarethe von Trotta, and the Televisual Aesthetics of Jahrestage." Gegenwartsliteratur 1 (2002): 175-190.
• "Benjamins Stille." Transit: Europäische Revue 23 (Summer 2002): 23-37.
• "Aura Reconsidered: Benjamin and Contemporary Visual Culture." Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory. Ed. Gerhard Richter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. 95-117.
• "Forget Berlin." The German Quarterly 74.4 (Fall 2001): 343-354. (Special Issue on Sites of Memory.)
• "Redeeming History? Foster's Dome and the Political Aesthetic of the Berlin Republic." German Studies Review 24.2 (May 2001): 303-324.
• "‘Reden über Deutschland’: Literarische Kultur in der Mediengesellschaft." Schreiben nach der Wende: Ein Jahrzehnt deutscher  Literatur, 1989-1999. Eds. Gerhard Fischer and David Roberts. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001.
• "Aesthetic Politics Today: Walter Benjamin and Post-Fordist Culture." Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospect. Eds. Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Jaimey Fisher. Providence: Berghahn Books, 2001. 94-116.
• "Consuming the Other: Identity, Alterity, and Contemporary German Cinema." Camera Obscura 44 (Fall 2000): 41-74. (Special Issue on Marginality and Alterity in New European Cinemas, Part 1.)
• "Germanistik in den USA." Texte, Wissen, Qualifikationen: Ein Wegweiser für Germanisten. Ed. Thomas Rathmann. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2000. 163-168.
• "Sirk and the Culture Industry: Zu neuen Ufern and The First Legion." Film Criticism 23.2-3 (Winter/Spring 1999): 94-121. (Special Issue on Douglas Sirk/Detlef Sierck.)
• "Fascist Aesthetics Revisited." Modernism/Modernity 6.1 (January 1999): 51-74.
• "Screening Fascism’s Underground: Kurt Bernhardt’s The Tunnel." New German Critique 74 (Spring/Summer 1998): 151-178. (Special Issue on Nazi Cinema.)
• "‘Raus aus der Haut’: Division and Identity in Current German Cinema." Co-authored with Hester Baer. GDR Bulletin (Spring 1998): 45-51.
• "Simulating Simulation: Art and Modernity in Faust II." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 34.1 (February 1998): 1-25.
• "En-Gendering Mass Culture: The Case of Zarah Leander." Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation. Eds. Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1997. 161-175.
• "Siegfried Rides Again: Westerns, Technology, and the Third Reich." Cultural Studies 11.3 (October 1997): 418-442.
• "On Adorno, Wagner, and the Trials of Reading: Review Essay on Peter U. Hohendahl’s Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno and Marc A. Weiner’s Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination." Modernism/Modernity 4.1 (1997): 169-174.
• "Cultural Studies and the Literary." PMLA 112.2 (March 1997): 266-267.
• "Rethinking the Spectacle: History, Visual Culture, and German Unification." Wendezeiten--Zeitenwenden: Positionsbestimmungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur 1945-1995. Eds. Robert Weninger and Brigitte Rossbacher. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1997. 151-170.
• "Negotiating Popular Culture: Wenders, Handke, and the Topographies of Cultural Studies." The German Quarterly 69.4 (1996): 381-400. (Special Issue on Culture Studies.)
• "Allegory and Power: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Representation." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 79.1-2 (Spring/Summer 1996): 59-78.
• "The Spectacle, the Trauerspiel, and the Politics of Resolution: Benjamin Reading the Baroque Reading Weimar." Critical Inquiry 22.2 (Winter 1996): 268-291.
• "Unsettling America: German Westerns and Modernity." Modernism/Modernity 2.3 (1995): 1-22. (Special Issue on Fascism and Culture, Part One.)
• "Zwischen Avantgarde und postmodernem Antidetektivroman. Eine Revision von Peter Handkes Der Hausierer." verLOCKERUNGEN: Österreichische Avantgarde im 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler. Vienna: Verlag Edition Präsens, 1994. 95-127.
• "Colonial Forestry: Sylvan Politics in Werner Herzog’s Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo." New German Critique 60 (1993): 133-159. (Special Issue on German Film History.)
• "‘Nothung! Nothung! Neidlicher Stahl!’ Die Phantasmagorie des Schwertes in Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen." The German Quarterly 66.4 (1993): 491-510.
• "Scotland--New York--St. Louis: Intersections of Nature and Modernity in Max Weber." The Image of Nature in Literature, the Media, and Society. Eds. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo: University of Southern Colorado, 1993. 182-187.
• "Goethes Ikonisierung der Poesie. Zur Schriftmagie im West-östlichen Divan." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 66.2 (1992): 361-389.
• "Goldberg und die Folgen. Zur Gewalt der Musik bei Thomas Bernhard." Sprachkunst: Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft 23.2 (1992): 267-290.
• "August Strindberg und die Ästhetik der Macht. Rekonstruktion einer Kritikstrategie." Skandinavistik: Zeitschrift für Sprache, Literatur und Kultur der nordischen Länder 22.2 (1992): 85-106.
• "Rettung und Destruktion. Erinnerungsverfahren und Geschichtsbewußtsein in Christa Wolfs Kindheitsmuster und Walter Benjamins Spätwerk." Monatshefte 84.1 (1992): 74-90.
• "Leben in der Hölle. Thomas Bernhards Heldenplatz." New German Review: A Journal of Germanic Studies 7 (1991): 15-25.

• "Goebel, Rolf J. Benjamin Heute: Großstadtdiskurs, Postkolonialität und Flanerie zwischen den Kulturen." Colloquia Germanica 35.3/4 (2002): 372-374.
• "Müller, Corinna and Harro Segeberg. Eds. Die Modellierung des Kinofilms: Zur Geschichte des Kinoprogramms zwischen Kurzfilm und Langfilm." The German Quarterly 75.3 (2002): 347-349.
• "Levin, David J. Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal." Modernism/Modernity 7.2 (2000): 318-320.
• "Murphy, Richard. Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity." The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (October 2000): 616-618.
• "Hansen, Horst. Die kopernikanische Wende in die Ästhetik: Ernst Bloch und der Geist seiner Zeit."The German Quarterly 73.2 (2000): 218-219.
• "Schulte-Sasse, Linda. Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Germany." German Studies Review 31.1 (1998): 165-166.
• "Spotts, Frederic. Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival." The German Quarterly 71.1 (1998): 97-98.
• "Cook, Roger F. and Gerd Gemünden. The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition." Michigan Germanic Studies 22.2 (Fall 1996): 220-223.
• "Silberman, Marc. German Cinema: Texts in Contexts." German Studies Review 29.2 (1996): 399-401.
• "Holub, Robert C. Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction." Faultline: Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Studies 2 (1993): 166-169.
• "Bohrer, Karl Heinz. Die Kritik der Romantik: Der Verdacht der Philosophie gegen die literarische Moderne." Faultline 1 (1992): 152-155.
• "Rossbacher, Karlheinz. Literatur und Liberalismus: Zur Kultur der Ringstraßenzeit in Wien." Faultline 1 (1992): 163-167.
• "Buck-Morss, Susan. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project." The German Quarterly 65.1 (1992): 87-89.
• "Jennings, Michael W. Dialectical Images: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Literary Criticism." The German Quarterly 64.4 (1991): 570-571.