Cormican / William The Tender Gaze

Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78744-798-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 234 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Women and Gender in German Studies

By exploring the concept of the "tender gaze" in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behaviors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cormican, Muriel

William, Jennifer Marston

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nowicki, Anna-Rebecca

Blair, John

Joseph Rockelmann, Joseph Rockelmann & Christina

O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth

Weiler, Christina

Nenno, Nancy

Schmidt, Gary

Mukherjee, Erika Nelson

Sathe, Nikhil

Martens, Lorna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Tender Gaze - Muriel Cormican and Jennifer Marston William
1: Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema - Muriel Cormican
2: The Tender Gaze, Embodied Politics, and Perspective-Taking in German Postdramatic Theater - Jennifer Marston William
3: Face to Face: Race, Gender, and the Gaze in Mo Asumang's Die Arier - Nancy Nenno
4: "Risse, hinter denen man einen Kern entdeckt, der so ähnlich ist wie die Herzen von uns allen": The Tender Gaze in Umut Dag's Risse im Beton - Nikhil Sathe
5: Looking through the Eyes of Empathy: Encouraging a Culture of Caring and Compassion in Doris Dörrie's Keiner liebt mich - Erika Nelson Mukherjee
6: The Tender and Transgressive Beast Within: Escape Narratives in Films by Krebitz, Stuber, and Speckenbach - Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
7: Looking at Looking in Margarethe von Trotta's Das Versprechen - John Blair
8: A Queer Phenomenology of Gender in Maren Ade's Alle Anderen and Toni Erdmann - Gary Schmidt
9: Rilke's "Schauen" - Lorna Martens
10: Pity Stares or Tender Gaze? Seeing Disability in Nineteenth-Century Austrian and German Literature - Anna-Rebecca Nowicki
11: The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck's "Liebeszauber" - Joseph Rockelmann
12: Mothering, Animals, and the Surveillance State in the Anthropocene: An Ecofeminist Reading of Birgit Vanderbeke's Die Frau mit dem Hund - Christina Weiler
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cormican, Muriel
MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Women and Gender in the Works of Lou-Andreas Salomé (CH, 2009).

William, Jennifer Marston
JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).

Cormican Muriel:
MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Women and Gender in the Works of Lou-Andreas Salomé (CH, 2009).William Jennifer Marston:
JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).