Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination

by Gerd Gemünden

Book Overview

Framed Visions analyzes the pivotal role American mass media and popular culture have played in shaping the political, social, and psychological identity of postwar Germans and Austrians. Through detailed readings of films, novels, plays, and poems of a variety of contemporary artists--including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Elfriede Jelinek, Herbert Achternbusch, Monika Treut, Peter Handke, and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann--Gerd Gem nden...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472109472
• ISBN13: 9780472109470
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"