Geb. 1944, Emeritiert / im Ruhestand seit 2002, Reading, Großbritannien/Nordirland

German Studies (Fachgebiet) - Politics, history and institutions of the German-speaking countries; 19th- and 20th-c. German literature; German mass media; German cinema (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

The University of Reading - Department of German Studies, The University of Reading - Whiteknights, PO Box 217, READING, Berkshire, RG6 6AH

Forschungsgebiete

• #Medienwissenschaft, Medientheorie, Mediengeschichte
• #Landeskunde/'German Studies'
• #Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert, Exilliteratur, Literatur seit 1945
• #Geschichte der Germanistik (Disziplingeschichte)

Besondere Forschungsgebiete

• Politics, history and institutions of the German-speaking countries
• 19th- and 20th-c. German literature
• German mass media
• #German cinema

Monographien

• The Mass Media of the German-speaking Countries (1976)
• The New German Cinema (1980)
• Landscape and Landscape Imagery in R.M. Rilke (1980)
• The Sword and the Ploughshare: Autonomous Peace Initiatives in East Germany (1983).

Aufsätze und Beiträge

• The anonymous characters in Dürrenmatt's Der Besuch der alten Dame (GLL, 1971)
• Kafka as myth-maker: Some approaches to Vor dem Gesetz (GLL, 1975)
• The New German Cinema (GLL, 1979)
• Film and the Study of German Politics (ASGP Bulletin, 1979)
• The German Press (Exeter Tapes, 1979)
• Literaturverfilmung and the New German Cinema (PEGS, 1981/82)
• The Paid Pipers of Oberhausen: Public Sponsorship and the West German Cinema (ASGP Journal, 1983)
• The Press in the GDR: Principles and Practice, in Culture and Society in the GDR (ed. G. Bartram et al.) (1984)
• Volker Schlöndorff and Hans Jürgen Syberberg, in Cinegraph: Kritisches Lexikon zum deutschen Film (ed. H. Bock) (1984)
• Alternative Approaches to the German Question (GLL, 1985)
• 'Wollt ihr das totale Fernsehen?' The New Media Debate in West Germany (JAS, 1985)