Contemporary Remediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures

Contemporary Remediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures

Special Issue of TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World Co-edited by Prof. Angelica Fenner (and Prof. Uli Linke)

This Special Issue emerged out of the 6th Toronto German Studies Symposium, which took place in April 2013 and was co-organized by Professors Angelica Fenner (German and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto) and Uli Linke (Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology), with generous funding provided by the DAAD and by the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, the Cinema Studies Institute, the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the Faculty of Arts & Science.

http://transit.berkeley.edu/2014/fenner-and-linke/

TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World

Volume 9, Issue 2, 2014, Special Topic: Contemporary Remediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures

Foreword
Erik Born, Managing Editor

SPECIAL TOPIC:
Contemporary Remediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures

Introduction
Angelica Fenner and Uli Linke, guest editors

The New Diversity and the New Public: Impressions of dOCUMENTA (13)
Barbara Wolbert

A Path through the Woods: Remediating Affective Landscapes in Documentary Asylum Worlds
Bettina Stoetzer

Hardboiled Performance and Affective Intimacy: Remediations of Racism in the Cenk Batu Tatorte
Claudia Breger

Ming Wong’s Imitations
Barbara Mennel

Remediating Fassbinder in Video Installations by Ming Wong and Branwen Okpako
Katrin Sieg

TRANSLATIONS

The Sound Valley
By Peter Waterhouse
Translated by Andrew Ziesig, Ilija Wolinski, Kathleen Stack, Ashley Sherry, Kara Saunders, Kelsey Rader, Laisa Neuner, Judith Menzl, Morgen Daniels, Anna Dorste, Anneliese Chittock, Sarah Allen, and David Gramling

On the Train
By Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Translated by Leslie A. Adelson

BOOK REVIEW

The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School, by Marco Abel
Christian Petzold, by Jaimey Fisher<http://transit.berkeley.edu/2014/tovey-2/>
Reviewed by Cara Tovey