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Title Exhibiting the German past : museums, film, and musealization / edited by Peter M. McIsaac and Gabriele Mueller
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series German and European studies
German and European studies.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The "Museal Gaze" and "Civic Seeing": City, Film, and Museum in Wim Wenders's Der Himmel über Berlin -- 2. Refracted Memory: Museums, Film, and Visual Culture in Urban Space -- 3. Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Unser täglich Brot: Preservation, the Food Industry, and the Interrogation of Visual Evidence -- 4. The Concealed Curator: Constructed Authenticity in Uli Edel's Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex -- 5. Remembering and Historicizing Socialism: The Private and Amateur Musealization of East Germany's Everyday Life -- 6. Object Lessons: Visuality and Tactility in Museums of the Socialist Everyday -- 7. Historical Museum Meets Docu-Drama: The Recipient's Experiential Involvement in the Second World War -- 8. Framing the Past: Visual Musealizations of the Nazi Past in Harlan -- Im Schatten von Jud Süß and Jud Süß -- Film ohne Gewissen -- 9. Moving Statues: Arthur Grimm, the Entartete Kunst Exhibition, and Installation Photography as Standfotografie -- 10. "In a Hundred Years of Cinema ... ": History and Musealization in Harun Farocki's Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik in elf Jahrzehnten -- 11. Sex on Display: Sexual Science and the Exhibition PopSex! -- 12. Spaces in Motion and Cinematic Experiences: The Permanent Exhibition Film of the Deutsche Kinemathek -- Museum für Film und Fernsehen -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary Featuring a wide range of valuable case studies, Exhibiting the German Past offers a unique perspective on the developing relationship between museums and visual media
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Museums -- Social aspects -- Germany
Museum exhibits -- Social aspects -- Germany
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Germany
Collective memory -- Germany
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE -- General.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Collective memory
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
Museum exhibits -- Social aspects
Museums -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Germany -- In motion pictures
Germany -- In popular culture
Subject Germany
Form Electronic book
Author Mueller, Gabriele, editor
McIsaac, Peter M., 1968- editor
ISBN 9781442620742
1442620749
9781442620759
1442620757