Brigitte Peucker (born 13 April 1948, in

Berlin, Germany Berlin ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of ...

) is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German Languages and Literatures and Professor of

Film Studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various film theory, theoretical, history of film, historical, and film criticism, critical approaches to film, cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media stud ...

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. A disciple of Yale University's

Geoffrey Hartman Geoffrey H. Hartman (August 11, 1929 – March 14, 2016) was a German-born American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, although he cannot be categorised by a single school or method. Hartman spent mos ...

, she has written on and teaches in film studies, particularly

German cinema The film industry in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema made major technical and artistic contributions to early film, broadcasting and television technology. Babelsberg became a household synonym for the early 2 ...

, as well as in German

lyric poetry Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term for both modern lyric poetry and modern song lyrics derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature, t ...

and literature. She is an expert on

Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featu ...

horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with Transgressive art, transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements of the genre include Mo ...

, and painting and cinema. She has been Chair of the Film Studies Program at Yale University 1986–2000, and of the German Department 1997–2002, 2003–4.

Selected publications

*''Arcadia to Elysium: preromantic modes in 18th century Germany'' (Studien zur Germanistik, Anglistik und Komparatistik, ISSN 0340-594X; 81), Bonn: Bouvier, 1980. *''Lyric descent in the German romantic tradition,'' New Haven, C.T.: Yale University Press, cop. 1987. *''The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film,'' Stanford, C.A.: Stanford University Press, cop. 2007. *''Incorporating images: film and the rival arts,'' Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, cop. 1995 *"Female body, textual body : nature, art, and property in Voss's "Luise"", ''Studies in German and Scandinavian literature after 1500: a festschrift for George C. Schoolfield'', ed. by James A. Parente, Jr. and Richard Erich Schade. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, cop. 1993, p. 94-100. *"Looking and touching: spectacle and collection in Sontag's 'Volcano lover'", ''The Yale journal of criticism'', ISSN 0893-5378 ; 11(1998):1, p. 159-165

References

External links

Brigitte Peucker's Profile at Yale University
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