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Forschungsgebiete:

• #Medienwissenschaft, Medientheorie, Mediengeschichte
• #Landeskunde/'German Studies'
• #Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert, Exilliteratur, Literatur seit 1945
• #Geschichte der Germanistik (Disziplingeschichte)

Besondere Forschungsgebiete:

• Politics, history and institutions of the German-speaking countries
• 19th- and 20th-c. German literature
• German mass media
• German cinema

Monographien:

• The Mass Media of the German-speaking Countries (1976)
• The New German Cinema (1980)
• Landscape and Landscape Imagery in R.M. Rilke (1980)
• The Sword and the Ploughshare: Autonomous Peace Initiatives in East Germany (1983).

Aufsätze und Beiträge:

• The anonymous characters in Dürrenmatt's Der Besuch der alten Dame (GLL, 1971)
• Kafka as myth-maker: Some approaches to Vor dem Gesetz (GLL, 1975)
• The New German Cinema (GLL, 1979)
• Film and the Study of German Politics (ASGP Bulletin, 1979)
• The German Press (Exeter Tapes, 1979)
• Literaturverfilmung and the New German Cinema (PEGS, 1981/82)
• The Paid Pipers of Oberhausen: Public Sponsorship and the West German Cinema (ASGP Journal, 1983)
• The Press in the GDR: Principles and Practice, in Culture and Society in the GDR (ed. G. Bartram et al.) (1984)
• Volker Schlöndorff and Hans Jürgen Syberberg, in Cinegraph: Kritisches Lexikon zum deutschen Film (ed. H. Bock) (1984)
• Alternative Approaches to the German Question (GLL, 1985)
• 'Wollt ihr das totale Fernsehen?' The New Media Debate in West Germany (JAS, 1985)
• Introduction to Rudolf Bahro, Building the Green Movement (1985)
• The New Peace Movement in West Germany (CGS, 1986)
• Was 'Ich bin Germanist' auf englisch heißt (Prisma: Zeitschrift der Gesamthochschule Kassel, 1986)
• The Church, the State, and the Peace Movement in the GDR (GDRMon, 1986/87)
• The GDR and the German Question: The Unofficial Debate in the Peace Movement (Studies in GDR Culture and Society, 1987)
• What are the Media for? Philosophies of the Media in the Federal Republic and the GDR (CGS, 1988)
• 'Was führt zum Frieden, was zum Krieg?' Arguments on Peace in the GDR, in The GDR Approaches the 1990s: The View from Britain (ed. M. Dennis) (1988)
• The Mass Media, in West Germany Today (ed. K. Koch) (1989)
• The Literaturverfilmungswelle', in After the 'Death' of Literature: West German Writing of the 1970s (ed. K. Bullivant) (1989)
• Germanistische Medienwissenschaft in Großbritannien (JIG, 1989)
• Men, Women, and the 'Third Way', in Günter Grass's 'Der Butt' (ed. P. Brady et al.) (1990)
• The Opposition on the Eve of the Revolution (Studies in GDR Culture and Society, 1993)
• The Peace Movement and the Church in the Honecker Years, in The German Revolution of 1989 (ed. G. Glaessner et al.) (1992)
• "Wer zu spät kommt...": Neues Deutschland and the "Wende" (GLL, 1992)
• The Transformation of the Media in East Germany since the Wende (JAS, 1993)
• Chaos and Control in the Weimar Film (GLL, 1995)
• The German Media, in The New Germany (ed. D. Lewis et al.) (1995)
• The Press in the New Länder (Studies in GDR Culture and Society, 1996
• What does 'Culture' mean in German Cultural Studies?, in German Studies: Old and New Challenges (ed. P.R. Lutzeier) (1998)
• The Opposition that Dare not Speak its Name, in Finding a Voice: Problems of Language in East German Culture and Society (ed. G. Jackman and I.F. Roe) (2000)
• The GDR and the British Peace Movement in the 1980s, in The Other Germany: Perceptions and Influences in British-East German Relations (ed. S. Berger and N. LaPorte) (2005)

Dissertation (Titel): Landscape and Landscape Imagery in R.M. Rilke

Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation: 1980

Herausgebertätigkeit:

• Günter Wallraff, Der Aufmacher (1990)
• The East German Citizens' Movements since the Wende (1995)
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (1999)

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA (Cantab), PhD (London)

Letzte Aktualisierung: Wed Feb 22 11:35:55 2006