Elisabeth Bronfen

About the Author

Elisabeth Bronfen is professor of English and American studies at the University of Zrich. Her numerous books include Specters of War: Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict; Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity, and the Aesthetic; The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents; and Home show more in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema. show less

Includes the names: Elisabe Bronfen, Elisabeth Bronfen, Anglistin Elisabeth Bronfen, Schriftstellerin, US

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Works by Elisabeth Bronfen

The Knotted Subject (1998) 38 copies

Cindy Sherman: Photographic Works 1975-1995 (Schirmer Art Books on Art, Photography & Erotics) (1995) 38 copies, 1 review

Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century (2001) 22 copies

Eija-Liisa Ahtila (2002) — Author — 21 copies

Meret Oppenheim (2013) 14 copies

Paul McCarthy: Lala Land (2005) 14 copies

Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Film and Culture) (2004) 13 copies

Sylvia Plath (1998) 12 copies

Night Passages: Philosophy, Literature, and Film (2013) 12 copies

Paul McCarthy: Lala Land (English and German Edition) 10 copies

Specters of War: Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict (2012) 8 copies

Frauen Sehen Frauen: Eine Bildgeschichte Der Frauen Photographie Von Julia Margaret Cameron Bis Inez Van Lamsweerde (2001) 7 copies

Female Trouble: Die Kamera als Spiegel und Bühne weiblicher Inszenierungen (2008) 5 copies

Obsessed: The Cultural Critic's Life in the Kitchen (2019) 5 copies

Hollywoods Kriege: Geschichte einer Heimsuchung (2013) 5 copies

Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relationship to the Dead (2007) 5 copies

Liebestod und Femme fatale (2004) 4 copies

Tiefer als der Tag gedacht: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Nacht (2008) 4 copies

Gothic Renaissance : a reassessment (2014) 4 copies

Maria Lassnig: In the Mirror of Possibilities: Watercolors and Drawings from 1947 to the Present (2009) 4 copies

Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory: Space, Identity, Text (1999) 3 copies

Julia Stoschek Collection: Fragile No. 2: Number Two: Fragile (2009) 3 copies

Gregor Schneider: Venice Biennale 2001 (2001) 3 copies

Die schöne Seele oder die Entdeckung der Weiblichkeit (1996) 3 copies

Kleopatra die ewige Diva ; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn 28. Juni bis 6. Oktober 2013 (2013) — Curator and Author — 3 copies

Die Amerikanerin in Hitlers Badewanne (2015) 3 copies

Spiegel. Der Mensch im Widerschein Katalog zur Ausstellung im Museum Rietberg, Zürich 2019 (2019) — Contributor — 3 copies

Stilepochen des Films: Classical Hollywood (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek) (2013) 3 copies

Die schöne Leiche. Weibliche Todesbilder in der Moderne. (1992) 2 copies

Bjørn Melhus (2019) 2 copies

Angesteckt. Zeitgemässes über Pandemie und Kultur (2020) 2 copies

Dominic Büttner - Dreamscapes (2018) 2 copies

Stanley Cavell zur Einführung (2009) 2 copies

Der literarische Raum eine Untersuchung am Beispiel von Dorothy M. Richardsons Romanzyklus Pilgrimage (1986) 2 copies

Mad men, death and the American dream (2016) 2 copies

Noch einmal anders : zu einer Poetik des Seriellen (2016) 2 copies

The Trompe l’oeil Cleavage: Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich (2025) 2 copies

Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens (2008) 2 copies

Besessen.: Meine Kochmemoiren (2016) 2 copies

Hannes Schmid: Real Stories (2013) 2 copies

Heimweh: Illusionsspiele in Hollywood (1999) 2 copies

Shakespeare - und seine seriellen Motive (2025) 1 copy

Du 763: Ang Lee und sein Kino. Poesie im Grossformat 1 copy

Du 729: Frauenfieber. Regie Pedro Almodovar 1 copy

Du 682: Hautnah. Bilder und Geschichten vom Körper 1 copy

Crossmappings: On Visual Culture (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts) (2018) 1 copy

Obsessed : the cultural critic's life in the kitchen (2019) 1 copy

Hollywood und das Projekt Amerika: Essays zum kulturellen Imaginären einer Nation (2018) 1 copy

Noch einmal anders. Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen (2016) 1 copy

Trauma. Zwischen Psychoanalyse und kulturellem Deutungsmuster. (1999) 1 copy

Woman Power: Maria Lassnig in New York 1968–1980 (2017) 1 copy

Donne viste dalle donne : da Julia Margaret Cameron a Vanessa Beecroft (2002) 1 copy

"Enden sah ich die Welt" Wagner und die Philosophie in der Oper (2000) 1 copy

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Associated Works

A New History of German Literature (2005) — Contributor — 55 copies

Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture (1996) — Contributor — 6 copies

Blicke auf Carmen. Seeing Carmen: Goya. Courbet. Manet. Nadar. Picasso. Dt. /Engl. (2005) — Contributor — 4 copies

Ancient Worlds in Film and Television: Gender and Politics (Metaforms) (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Birthdate: 1958-04-28
Gender: female
Education: Harvard University (MA|1980)
Radcliffe College (BA|1979)
University of Munich (Ph.D|1986)
Occupations: English literature scholar
professor
Organizations: University of Zurich
New York University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Nationality: Germany
Switzerland
USA
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Places of residence: Zurich, Switzerland
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Associated Place (for map): Germany

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Petra.Xs 738 reviews

Cindy Sherman: Selected Works: 1975-1995 (Schirmer Art Books on Art, Photography and Erotics) by Elisabeth Bronfen

I bought this, years later, to remind me of a mixed-media Cindy Sherman exhibition I saw in a London art gallery. Her vision is extra-ordinary: through her lens the mundane reveals a compelling face, the obscene, an entrancing beauty and the ugly a fascination that I wouldn't have seen with my own eyes.

If you get a chance to see this book, it will be like seeing a picture of a double rainbow or an eclipse: a picture is only a record, not an experience.

Apr 2, 2013