Stefan Keppler-Tasaki

Bio: Stefan Keppler-Tasaki is an academic researcher from University of Tokyo. The author has contributed to research in topics: German studies & Movie theater. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 6 publications receiving 18 citations.

Die doppelte Lucinde Verdeckte Kriegsführung zwischen Goethe und Friedrich Schlegel

Abstract: Unter der Perspektive oberschichtiger Interaktionsverhaltnisse und deren symbolischer Kommunikationsmodi lasst sich der Verkehr zwischen Goethe und Friedrich Schlegel mit den Kategorien der Mittelbarkeit, Mehrdeutigkeit und Latenz neu beschreiben. Die so verschlusselte Kritik pragt nicht nur die bekannte Intertextualitatsbeziehung der Lucinde zu den Lehrjahren, sondern auch das hier aufzudeckende Revanchespiel, das die Wanderjahre mit der Lucinde treiben.

Filmskripte 1920–1941

Abstract: Der Film als neues Medium und das Kino als sozialer Ort bildeten einen fruhen Beschleunigungsfaktor der kulturellen Globalisierung.

Crisis Discourse and Art Theory: Richard Wagner’s Legacy in Films by Veith von Fürstenberg and Kevin Reynolds

Abstract: Just as the history of cinema is haunted by the Middle Ages, the history of medieval cinema is haunted by the works of Richard Wagner. The symbiotic relationship between the medieval and the cinematic, as encapsulated in the compound “medieval cinema,” finds its early parallel in “Wagnerian medievalism.” After all, Wagner’s operas are drawn almost exclusively from medieval sources, characters, and stories, and recent research has confirmed one of the long-standing topoi of the debate on cinema’s origins, that is, that his works’ aesthetics is protoinematic.1

United Nations High Commission for Refugees

Abstract: 4. UNHCR notes with concern that although the country acceded to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol in 1999, incorporation of the 1951 Convention obligations into national legislation and normative acts has been slow and to date Kazakhstan has failed to comply with its obligation to give full effect to the Covenant in the domestic legal order, inter alia providing for effective judicial and other remedies for violations of these rights

Drehbuch im Stummfilm: Eine Bibliographie / Silent Film Screenplay: A Bibliography

Abstract: 2006 hat der Medienwissenschaftler Ian W. Macdonald ein Forschungsnetzwerk gegründet, das später den Namen Screenwriting Research Network erhielt. Die Entstehung der Drehbuchforschung als eines international vernetzten Forschungsbereichs zählt man meist eben ab diesem Jahr, auch wenn es früher vereinzelte film-, literaturund kulturwissenschaftliche Projekte gab, die das Drehbuch zum Forschungsgegenstand hatten. Denn erst ein konsequenter Austausch zwischen den Wissenschaftler*innen, Theoretiker*innen und Praktiker*innen des Drehbuchschreibens machte die methodischen und materialtechnischen Schwierigkeiten sichtbar, die die Forschung an Drehbüchern mit sich bringt. Eine der größten unter diesen Schwierigkeiten ist der Mangel an verfügbarem und systematisiertem Forschungsmaterial: Drehbücher wurden in vielen Ländern erst ab der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts kontinuierlich archiviert und werden bis heute eher sporadisch veröffentlicht. Daher mag es besonders herausfordernd sein, eine Geschichte des Drehbuchs nachzuzeichnen; bei dieser Aufgabe möchte diese Bibliographie Hilfe ableisten. Unter dem Begriff „Drehbuch“ verstehe ich alle Arten von Texten, die auf die realweltliche Situation der Filmproduktion Bezug nehmen und die in der Regel mit sprachlichen Mitteln das Medium Film simulieren (obwohl diese letztere intermediale Bezugnahme nur eine Konvention

Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany

Abstract: but one feels that Priestland has ultimately read back into history a thesis that will give him the results he desires in the future. To put it bluntly, in order to prove the kind of thesis that Priestland wishes to get across here, he needs to offer much more than the ‘essay’ in question. He wants to do ‘big’ history; but while noone is suggesting one has to go to Toynbee-esque lengths to do this, 300 or so pages simply won’t wash. One might be a little ungenerous in suspecting that the disclaimer about the book being for a general readership and not an academic study is merely a fig leaf; but nonetheless, the suspicion remains. Of course, the question one must always ask of books like this is: How much is prescription and how much is description? Despite proclaiming in the introduction that he had no intention of prognostication, in the epilogue Priestland allows himself to speculate. What will happen to the merchants now that they have been seen to be wearing no clothes? The merchant, we are told, ‘is rarely overthrown by revolutions . . . History suggests that merchant rule tends to be defeated by its inner flaws’ (pp. 249–50) The problems thrown up by the crash of 2008 will not be solved by tinkering: ‘We need a more fundamental change in both values and power relations’ (p. 251). Somewhat predictably, this involves the merchant being reined in and the sage and the worker being given more of a hand in things. But Priestland’s ultimate recommendation is essentially that a Bretton Woods II should be put together. Unfortunatly, he seems to have no idea how this might be brought about—we are told that conditions today are extremely unpromising (pp. 256–257). Ultimately, Merchant, Soldier, Sage is a lightweight affair. Preistland writes well, and it is certainly no chore to breeze through the 300 or so pages here. But aside from a few interesting insights on the nature of power, there is not much to take away from it. Essentially it is the old cry of ‘why don’t we learn from history’ in a quasi-sociological dress. The problem with arguing that by letting history have its say we can clear the present of indeterminacy, is that history rarely has its say just once—to wheel out a trite-but-true phrase, every generation re-writes its own history.