Description: How does the visual nature of spectacle destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? This interdisciplinary volume explores the concept of spectacle in the German context, including critical interventions into exhibitions, architecture, cinema and photography from the Baroque to the contemporary.
Review Quotes: Overall, this volume provides a fascinating, multifaceted, and truly interdisciplinary look at spectacle in the German context. It is of considerable value to students and scholars in German studies.
(Rick McCormick, Feminist German Studies 34/2019)