1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456790203321

Autore

Thum Gregor <1967->

Titolo

Uprooted [[electronic resource] ] : how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / / Gregor Thum ; translated from the German by Tom Lampert and Allison Brown ; translation of Polish sources by W. Martin and Jasper Tilbury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-16383-7

9786613163837

1-4008-3996-3

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LampertTom

BrownAllison

MartinW

TilburyJasper

Disciplina

943.8/52

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Influence

World War, 1939-1945 - Deportations from Poland

Forced migration - Poland - Wrocław - History - 20th century

Social change - Poland - Wrocław - History - 20th century

City and town life - Poland - Wrocław - History - 20th century

Collective memory - Poland - Wrocław - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Wrocław (Poland) History 20th century

Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland)

Wrocław (Poland) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A note on names -- Prologue: A dual tragedy -- The destruction of Breslau -- Poland's shift to the west -- pt. 1. The postwar era : rupture and survival -- Takeover -- Moving people -- A loss of substance -- Reconstruction -- pt. 2. The politics of the past : the city's transformation -- The impermanence syndrome -- Propaganda as necessity -- Mythicizing history -- Cleansing memory -- The pillars of



an imagined tradition -- Old town, new contexts -- pt. 3. Prospects -- Amputated memory and the turning point of 1989 -- Appendix 1: List of abbrevations -- Appendix 2: Translations of Polish institutions -- Appendix 3: List of Polish and German street names.

Sommario/riassunto

With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's "amputated memory." Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II. Uprooted traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996556961403316

Autore

Scherer Thomas J. J

Titolo

Inszenierungen Zeitgenössischer Propaganda : Kampagnenfilme Im Dienste des Gemeinwohls

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2023

©2024

ISBN

3-11-118565-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 pages)

Collana

Cinepoetics Series ; ; v.14

Soggetti

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Danksagung -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- Teil I: Zugänge -- 2 Gemeinwohlappelle – Weltbilder zwischen Propaganda und sozialem Marketing -- 3 Überredung als Fiktionalisierung – Poetiken der Persuasion und die Poiesis des Filme-Sehens -- Teil II: Inszenierungen -- 4 ‚Feel-Bad Movies‘ – zur Überzeugungskraft schlechter Zuschauergefühle -- 5 ‚Metaphors we should live by‘ – zur Metaphorik von Social Advertisements -- Teil III: Diskursformationen -- 6 Streitende Bilder – zur Grundmetaphorik audiovisueller Diskursformationen -- 7 Es wird gewesen sein – filmische Zeit-Räume präventiven Denkens -- 8 Schlussbetrachtungen -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Verzeichnis audiovisueller Quellen -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Namensregister -- Filmregister -- Farbabbildungen

Sommario/riassunto

"Don't drink and drive!", "Respect Covid regulations!", or "Don't get the vaccine!": In the public spheres of democratic societies, there are many insistent audiovisual messages that appeal to the public in the name of the "common good". This monograph examines such social advertisements against a multi-disciplinary field of theoretical reference in order to develop a discourse-analytical approach. By analyzing films serving "mundane" purposes as cinematic forms of meaning-making, it opens up audiovisual discourse formations to aesthetic and political critique. This film studies perspective sheds new light on media practices where propaganda, advertising, and public



relations intersect. What emerges through this analysis is a poetics of persuasion: a political instrumentalization of fictional worlds, with their inherent possible actions, responsibilities, and views of humanity, staged in the language of cinema. Drawing on a number of case studies, this book teases out three main elements of social advertising: the genre-specific pedagogy of negative audience feelings, cinematic metaphors that shape public media discourses, and the temporal structure of prevention. It shows that audiovisual persuasion is not a unidirectional rhetorical maneuver, but rather a process of negotiation, of shaping ideas and stances through the medium of cinematic fiction. Through this reflection of media-specific societal practices, the study contributes to the interdisciplinary research on contemporary public media spheres.

Fahr nicht betrunken Auto! Halte Dich (nicht) an Corona-Schutzmaßnahmen! – In den Medienöffentlichkeiten demokratischer Gesellschaften finden sich eindringliche audiovisuelle Appelle unterschiedlicher Akteur*innen, die im Namen des Gemeinwohls auf das Verhalten ihres Publikums abzielen. Das Buch entwickelt anhand solcher Social Advertisements und einer disziplinär vielseitigen theoretischen Auseinandersetzung einen diskursanalytischen Ansatz, der genuin filmisches Denken in sein Zentrum stellt und audiovisuelle Diskursformationen der Kritik zugänglich macht. An der Schwelle von Propaganda, Werbung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit wird aus einer filmwissenschaftlichen Perspektive nach den Poetiken der Persuasion gefragt – den fiktionalen Möglichkeitsräumen, den Mensch- und Weltbildern im Spotformat. Durch umfangreiche Detailstudien eröffnet das Buch Zugänge zu drei zentralen Dimensionen von audiovisuellen Gemeinwohlappellen: der Pädagogik der negativen Zuschauergefühle, diskursprägenden Metaphern und dem Zeitschema der Prävention. Audiovisuelle Überzeugungsarbeit erscheint dabei nicht als unidirektionales rhetorisches Wirkungskalkül, sondern als Aushandlungsprozesse im Medium der filmischen Fiktion. Die Untersuchung versteht sich in dieser Reflexion medienspezifischer Aushandlungspraktiken als Beitrag zu einer interdisziplinären zeitgenössischen Öffentlichkeitsforschung.