Resistance Women
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical...
The Struggle with the Daemon: Holderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche
Stefan Zweig, Paul Cedar, Eden Paul and Henry Fuseli
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The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist...
Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power: The Making of Peace: 2016
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This book explores the secret relations between theatre and diplomacy from the Tudors to the Treaty...
The German House
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Frankfurt, 1963 At the war’s end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied...
Historical Fiction Post World War Two German Literature
Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
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For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural...
Destination London: German-speaking Emigres and British Cinema, 1925-1950
Tim Bergfelder and Christian Cargnelli
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The legacy of emigres in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second...
Baroque Visual Rhetoric
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Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from...
Saturnin
Mark Corner and Zdenek Jirotka
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On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering...
ClareR (5721 KP) rated Valkyrie (2008) in Movies
Jun 23, 2019
I was really surprised (pleasantly!) by Cruises acting in this. After my initial horror at the opening sequence where he was talking in German (my children asked if he would be speaking German throughout, and were fully prepared to go to bed early - they didn’t want to read subtitles for a whole movie, I didn’t want to hear the shocking pronunciation!😆), it really picked up! The British actors really made it for me (I could well be accused of bias, but well, I don’t care 🤷🏼♀️), and Eddie Izzard was the most surprising - I really need to stop being surprised that he can act well!
It’s a good film! We had a good family film night anyway, and I think it’s worth watching.
German Queer Crime Fiction: Feminist Politics, Justice and Desire
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A marriage of mystery fiction and queer concerns, queer crime literature celebrates the pairing of...