Final Chord and ‘Die Neue Welt’: The Mise-en-scène of Aufbruch1

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vexed Question ◽  
Architectural Symbolism

Chapter 5 ("Final Chord and 'Die Neue Welt': The Mise-en-Scène of Aufbruch")examines the only film from Sirk's German period to depict twentieth-century urban life. In the prologue that the director added to the existing script, two antithetical aesthetics appear to underscore the philosophical and political disparities that distinguish a democratic New York from a Fascist Berlin. Because the architectural symbolism of each of these cities may be read both positively and negatively (from a Modernist and a National Socialist point of view), after outlining the main arguments on either side, the author then attempts to resolve the vexed question of which metropolis offers the most desirable "New World" of the future, based upon the formal and narrative evidence that is provided by the film.

scholarly journals Braverman's New World? Assessing the Labour Process In Recent Scholarship

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Milloy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Recent Scholarship

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. By Henry Braverman. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998. 338 pp. $19.00. Paperback.

scholarly journals Empty Architecture and Empty Urbanism: the Remaking and Reframing on Contemporary Beijing

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Ho-yin Fong
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
Global System ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The City

The paper discusses a collage and montage understanding of modernity and argues that Beijing offers a contemporary simulacrum of the global system of sign values that is epitomized by the new CCTV headquarters and more directly mirrored in the Beijing World Park. In reading Beijing this way, the paper suggests that the city, as well as the global audience to which its spectacle architecture is addressed, is suffering an identity crisis in which our built environment has been reduced to series of signs. It discusses the architecture of the CCTV headquarters, then Beijing World Park as the miniature of Beijing, and finally how the slogan of Beijing Olympics 2008, “One World! One Dream!”, helps to read the contemporary architecture in Beijing as a symbol of the city’s – and through the city, the government’s – view of itself as a new world leader. It begins by placing this argument in a particular social, political, and economic framework – the attempts of the current Chinese authorities to position the Chinese economy, and its major cities, at the heart of the contemporary capitalist economy. These attempts, it is suggested, involve a more or less literal attempt to outstrip the city which throughout the twentieth century epitomized that system, New York.

Environmental Historian: An Interview with Alfred W. Crosby

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-317
Author(s):  
John F. Schwaller
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
New York ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
New World ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
The Future ◽  
Columbian Exchange

Alfred W. Crosby is the author of such influential works as The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492(New York: Greenwood Press, 1973).He lives in retirement on Nantucket Island with his wife Frances Karttunen, noted in her own right for important works in linguistics and history. In September, 2013, I had the opportunity to carry on a long conversation with Crosby about his work, American Studies, and the future for environmental history. Crosby suffers from Parkinson's disease. His mind is sharp and his insights are keen. The Columbian exchange is the phenomenon of the contact period in which European crops and animals were imported into the New World, while New World crops and animals were introduced into Europe.

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