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Representations of War in Films and Novels
Richard Mason / Jarosław Suchoples (eds.)
Representations of War
in Films and Novels
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Representations of war in films and novels / Richard Mason,
Jarosław Suchoples (eds.).
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-3-631-66966-2
1. War films–History and criticism. 2. War in literature. 3. Fiction–20th
century–History and criticism. I. Mason, Richard, 1957- editor. II.
Suchoples, Jarosław, editor.
PN1995.9.W3R47 2015
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Acknowledgement
Most of the chapters presented in this book were originally papers read at the
seminar on “Representations of War in Films and Novels”, jointly organized by
the Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and
the Goethe-Institut Malaysia, held at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 4–5 July
2013. We wish to acknowledge the support of the staff at IKON, both academic
and non-academic, as well as the participants who made the seminar a success.
The publication of this book is made possible by a grant-in-aid from the
Goethe-Institut Malaysia and the German Federal Foreign Office. For technical
editorial assistance, we thank Encik Mohd Azwan Mohd Ali of the Institute of
Malaysian and International Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Contributors
Paul Cornelius teaches classes in film and television at Mahidol University’s In-
ternational College in Thailand. His areas of interest include American film and
society, representations of the Vietnam War on film and in television, Weimar
and Nazi Cinema, as well as genre studies. Currently, his writing addresses the
depiction of madness in the cinema and American Visions of Southeast Asia in
Classical Hollywood Cinema. Previously, he taught cinema studies at Southern
Methodist University in the United States, American studies at the University of
Oldenburg in Germany, and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Texas at
Dallas. Paul Cornelius holds a Ph.D. in humanities from the University of Texas
at Dallas. Email: [email protected]
Professor Eberhard Demm has taught at the Universities of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada, Amsterdam (Gemeente Universiteit), Paris X, Paris XII, Lyon III, and
Koszalin (Poland). He was visiting professor at the Universities of Berlin (Hum-
boldt and Free University), Heidelberg, Latvia (Riga), Nancy II (Socrates Lectures)
and Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. He is now attached to the Research Center
CERAAC of the University Stendhal-Grenoble III. His recent publications include:
Auf Wache für die Nation. Erinnerungen. Der Weltkriegsagent Juozas Gabrys berichtet,
1911–1918 (2013), co-edited with Christina Nikolajew; Else Jaffé-von Richthofen.
Erfülltes Leben zwischen Max und Alfred Weber (2014). Email: [email protected]
Nicole Ogasa has studied in Hamburg, Hawai’i, and New York. After having
worked as a lecturer for English and German in China, India, Japan, and Austria
she is now holding a position as Senior lecturer for German studies at Universiti
Putra Malaysia. Her research interests are teaching and learning psychology and
psycholinguistics. Email: [email protected]
Rashila Ramli is Principle Fellow/Professor of Political Science in the Institute of
Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Her areas of specialization are Political Development with an emphasis on Gender
and Politics, and International Politics focusing on Global Governance. Email:
[email protected]
Richard Mason is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and Interna-
tional Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His research interests
are in the area of the Cold War, with particular reference to the United States’
policy toward Asia. His current research is on United States-Indonesian relations,
8 Contributors
focusing on the interplay between the United States’ policy of containment and
the challenge from Indonesia’s stance of non-alignment in the Cold War. Email:
[email protected]
Torsten Schaar studied German Literature, Linguistics and History at Universi-
ties of Rostock and Berlin, Germany. He obtained a PhD in the field of German
History, specializing in the history of World War II and Hitler Youth. Dr. Schaar
worked as a (DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service)-Lecturer for Linguis-
tics, Literature, and German Culture at Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom
(Thailand), Thammasat University, Bangkok (Thailand), and International Educa-
tion College (INTEC), Shah Alam (Malaysia). Dr. Schaar is currently employed
as Senior Lecturer for German Studies at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Dr. Schaar
is also screening curator for German feature films at Kelab Seni Filem Malaysia.
Email:[email protected]
Professor Bernd Schäfer is a Senior Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson Interna-
tional Center’s Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) and a Profes-
sorial Lecturer in German at the Department of Romance, German and Slavic
Languages and Literatures of the George Washington University in Washington
D.C. He was a Visiting Professor with the University of North Korean Studies
in Seoul, a Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, and a Research Fellow with the
German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and the Technical University
of Dresden. His publications include, The East German State and the Catholic
Church, 1945–1989 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010); Ostpolitik, 1969–1974:
Global and European Responses (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009),
co-edited with Carole Fink; Staat und Katholische Kirche in der DDR, (Köln/
Weimar: Böhlau, 2nd edition 1999) and 1965: Indonesia and the World (Ja-
karta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2013), co-edited with Baskara Wardaya. Email:
[email protected]
Raimond Selke holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Regensburg,
specializing in 19th century Victorian Painting and Art of the Weimar Republic.
He has been researching and teaching overseas for many years at University of
Warwick, East China University of Science and Technology, and Universiti Putra
Malaysia. His research interests are in Art History and Business Studies. He is
currently Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University. Email:
[email protected]
Jarosław Suchoples is Associate Professor at the Institute of Malaysian and In-
ternational Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, where he specialized in Eu-
ropean studies, transnational late modern history and international relations. In
