The East within the West
Imports in Popular Culture
Osteuropa 5/2007
Birgit Menzel, Ulrich Schmid (Gastherausgeber), Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, Andrea Huterer (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2007 [= Osteuropa 5/2007]
288 pages, 76 figures
Price: 15,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1218-9
Deutsche Fassung
Contents
- Birgit Menzel, Ulrich Schmid
The East within the West
Imports in Popular Culture - Dorothea Redepenning
Broadway cum Rakhmaninov
East European Composers in Hollywood - Horst-Jürgen Gerigk
Two Russians in America
Irving Berlin and Dimitri Tiomkin - Katharina Kucher
From Refugee Camp into the World’s Concert Halls
This History of the Don Cossack Choir - Helena Srubar
Magic from the East
Pan Tau Conquers West German Screens - Ilja Karenovics
Falling Eastern Blocs
Tetris or How the Soviet Union Made Game Boy a Superstar - Ulrich Schmid
Intercultural Incompetence
Borat Parodies Western Clichés about Eastern Europe - Ellen Rutten
Dancing Around the Red Star
The Russian Disco between Nostalgia for the East and Socialist Art - Mirja Lecke
Export Hit!
The Russian Girl Band t.A.T.u. - Holger Gemba
Ruslana
Intercultural Marketing from the Carpathians - Adrian Wanner
A Russian in New York
Gary Shteyngart and the Immigrant Chic - Maria Rubins
In Foreign Tongues
Milan Kundera’s and Andreï Makine’s French Prose - Andrea Meyer-Fraatz
Balkan-Beat, Eskimos and a Polish Cream Gateau
Eastern Elements in Emir Kusturica’s Film Arizona Dream - Tom Jürgens
Give Us This Day Our Daily Siberia
Imaginary Geography as German Pop Culture - Andrej Rogačevskij
Marks Not Marx
Eastern Europe, the Supermarket and the British Health System - Andrea Huterer
We Poor Schlawiner
Elegy of a Slavic Loan Word - Karlheinz Kasper
“Rome Lies Somewhere in Russia… ”
Russian Literature in German Translation 2006