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German and Russian Studies @ the  University of Missouri451 Strickland Hall (formerly GCB) | Columbia, MO 65211-4170 email: grs@missouri.edu | phone: 573-882-4328 | fax: 573-884-8456 |
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Faculty | Prager
Brad Prager
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Associate Professor of German ResearchBrad Prager is Associate Professor of German and an active member of the Program in Film Studies. His areas of research include Film History and Contemporary German Cinema, Holocaust Studies, and the art and literature of German Romanticism. He is the author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (London: Wallflower, 2007) and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (Rochester: Camden House 2007). He is also the co-editor of a new volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (Camden House, 2008). TeachingProfessor Prager has taught a range of courses including:
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PublicationsBooksVisualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory, eds. David Bathrick, Brad Prager, and Michael D. Richardson (Rochester: Camden House, 2008) The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (London: Wallflower, 2007). Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (Rochester: Camden House, 2007). Selected ArticlesThe Holocaust without Ink: Absent Memory and Atrocity in Joe Kubert’s Graphic Novel Yossel: April 19, 1943 in The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches, eds. Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2008) forthcoming. On the Liberation of Perpetrator Photographs in Holocaust Narratives in Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory, eds. David Bathrick, Brad Prager, and Michael D. Richardson (Rochester: Camden House, 2008), 19-37. The Haunted Screen (Again): The Historical Unconscious of Contemporary German Thrillers in Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945 and Beyond. (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture, eds. Laurel Cohen-Pfister and Dagmar Wienroder-Skinner (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006) 296-315 [pdf] Air War and Allegory in Bombs Away!: Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan, eds. William Rasch and Wilfred Wilms (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 2006) 25-43. Sebald's Kafka in W. G. Sebald: History - Memory - Trauma, eds. Scott Denham and Mark R. McCulloh (Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2006) 103-23. The Good German: W.G. Sebald and the Risks of Holocaust Writing, New German Critique 96 (2005) 75-102. A Collection of Damages: Critiquing the Violence of the Air War, Forum on Modern Language Studies 41.3 (2005) 308-19. The Erection of the Berlin Wall: Thomas Brussig's Heroes Like Us and the end of East Germany, Modern Language Review 99.4 (2004) 983-98. The Face of the Bandit: Racism and the Slave Trade in Herzog's Cobra Verde, Film Criticism 28.3 (2004) 2-20. Werner Herzog’s Hearts of Darkness: Fitzcarraldo, Scream of Stone and Beyond, Quarterly Review of Film and Video 20.1 (2003) 23-36. Beleaguered under the Sea: Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot as a German Hollywood Film in Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective, ed. Randall Halle and Maggie McCarthy (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003) 237-258. Modernism in the Contemporary Graphic Novel: Chris Ware and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, International Journal of Comic Art 5.1 (2003) 195-213 [pdf]. Kant in Caspar David Friedrich’s Frames, Art History 25.1 (2002) 68-86. [abstract ] Taming Impulses: Murnau’s Sunrise and the Exorcism of Expressionism, Literature/ Film Quarterly 28.4 (2000) 284-292. The Contours of the Visual Arts in Tieck’s Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen: Text/ Image/ Phantasm, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 35.3 (1999) 189-206. The Death Metaphysics of Heiner Müller’s "The Task," New German Critique 73 (Winter 1998) 67-80. |
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