Picturing America

The Editors: Antje Dallmann teaches American literature and culture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She specializes in urban literature, postmodernity and film studies. Reinhard Isensee teaches American literature and culture at the American Studies Program of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Research interests are American Cultural History, Young Adult Literature and New Media studies. Philipp Kneis has been organizing several students’ conferences and symposia at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His interests focus on visual culture, memetics, anthropology and political science.

lt;i>Contents: Eddie A. Bruce-Jones: Surviving September 11th or Snapshots in the Dark? A Critical Consideration of Two Professional Photographs as Portraits of Denial - Anthony Enns: The Return of the Dead. Photography, Memory, and Mourning - Manuela Mangold: The Body's Twist. How Does the Body Construct a Story? - Michael Lattek: Abduction and Adoption. Tracing the Western in The Big Lebowski - Chris Flor/Philipp Kneis: «Normal Again»: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Psychotic Narration - Antje Dallmann: Manchurian Candidates: Conspiracy Fiction, Visual Representation, and Masculinity in Crisis. Three Variations on a Popular Theme - Florian Stenschke: U.S. Global Media: Enter/tainment, Enter/America? Introducing U.S. Entertainment as Symbol of Utopia and Transcendence - Philipp Kneis: Communicating Democracy. Entering the American Republic Through The West Wing or the Commander in Chief - Alexandra von Barsewisch: Bordering on Images. A Cinematic Encounter at the US-Mexican Border - Heike Toewe: The Use of Spectatorship in Spike Lee's Bamboozled - Benjamin Letzler: «A Sliced Tomato You Have Maybe.» Jewish-American Literature and the Question of Food.