Elisabeth Bronfen is professor of English at the University of Zurich. She is the author, most recently, of
The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents and the coeditor of
Feminist Consequences: Theory for a New Century (Columbia).
29 Ebooks by Elisabeth Bronfen
Elisabeth Bronfen: Night Passages
In the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consciousness, as well as the world and art depicting them, emerged from this formless chaos. In fantasy, we seek to return …
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English
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€47.58
Elisabeth Bronfen: Home in Hollywood
Who can forget Dorothy’s quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard’s magic, only to discover that home—and the power to get …
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English
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€40.99
Elisabeth Bronfen & Misha Kavka: Feminist Consequences
Exploring the status of feminism in this ‘postfeminist’ age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French the …
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English
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€43.99
David LaRocca: The Philosophy of War Films
Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Holl …
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English
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€21.99
Elisabeth Bronfen: The Knotted Subject
Surrealist writer André Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the ‘wastebasket of medicine, ‘ a psycho …
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English
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€84.99
Elisabeth Bronfen & Beate Neumeier: Gothic Renaissance
This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered enc …
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English
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€32.99
Elisabeth Bronfen: Mad Men
Mit die meistbejubelte und bekannteste unter den sogenannten Qualitätsserien, führt »Mad Men« (2007–2015) mitten ins Herz der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft und Kultur der 1960er Jahre. Visuelle Kult …
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German
€14.99
Elisabeth Bronfen: Hollywoods Kriege
Über die Darstellung von Krieg im Hollywood-Film
Amerikas traumatische Kriegsgeschichte wird am ehesten verständlich, wenn man sie durch die Linse von Filmen erfasst. In den Erzählungen von …
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German
€12.99
Norbert Grob & Elisabeth Bronfen: Stilepochen des Films. Classical Hollywood
Die neue filmgeschichtliche Reihe, die in ausführlichen Essays über einzelne Epochen sowie in einlässlich interpretierenden Artikeln zu deren 50 wichtigsten Filmen jeweils die Blütezeiten großer …
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German
€10.99
Siri Hustvedt & Elisabeth Bronfen: Wenn Gefühle auf Worte treffen
Alles beginnt in einem Sommer in Island. Die Nächte sind lang und hell. Siri Hustvedt, 13, liest David Copperfield und weiß, dass sie Schriftstellerin werden will. Mit 14 liest sie Simone de Beauvoir …
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German
€16.99
Elisabeth Bronfen: Hollywood und das Projekt Amerika
Träume und Katastrophen haben das amerikanische Projekt von Anfang an begleitet. Das Kino ist der Ort, wo sie aufgegriffen, verhandelt und neu konzipiert wurden.
Die Essays dieses Bandes widmen sich …
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German
€26.99
Elisabeth Bronfen: Sylvia Plath
This study focuses on the way Plath’s work came to enmesh personal anguish with the cultural image repertoire of her time in such a resilient manner that its impact continues to haunt …
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English
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€31.02
David LaRocca: Philosophy of War Films
Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from …
PDF
English
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€151.87
Elisabeth Bronfen & Beate Neumeier: Gothic Renaissance
This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered …
PDF
DRM
€24.80
Elisabeth Bronfen: Crossmappings
The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these …
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€29.11
Elisabeth Bronfen: Over her dead body
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that ‘the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world’. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing …
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English
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€32.99
Fred Botting & Catherine Spooner: Monstrous media/spectral subjects
Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging medi …
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English
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€27.99
Andrew Smith & William Hughes: EcoGothic
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, …
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English
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€27.99
Glennis Byron: Globalgothic
‘The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.’ Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an …
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English
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€27.99
Carol Davison: The Gothic and death
The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It
investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the …
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English
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€33.99
Elisabeth Bronfen: Serial Shakespeare
Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely over American TV drama, it discusses the use of …
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English
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€134.99
Elisabeth Bronfen: Serial Shakespeare
Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture.
This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely over American TV drama, it discusses the use of …
PDF
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€106.13
Elisabeth Bronfen: Händler der Geheimnisse
Fünfzig Jahre nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs stirbt der jüdisch-amerikanische Veteran George Bromfield auf verdächtige Weise in einem Krankenhaus in New York. Kann es sein, dass seine zweite …
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German
€22.99
Fred Botting & Catherine Spooner: Monstrous media/spectral subjects
Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging …
PDF
English
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€20.00
William Hughes & Andrew Smith: EcoGothic
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, …
PDF
English
DRM
€20.03
Glennis Byron: Globalgothic
‘The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.’ Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an …
PDF
English
DRM
€19.97
Carol Davison: The Gothic and death
The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It
investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the …
EPUB
DRM
€26.54
Elisabeth Bronfen: Crossmappings
The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these …
PDF
DRM
€29.11
