Elisabeth Bronfen

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Full Name	Elisabeth Bronfen
Occupation	Literary Scholar
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1958(1958-04-23)
Age	66
Birthplace	Munich
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Aries

Elisabeth Bronfen Biography

Elisabeth Bronfen is one of the most popular and richest Literary Scholar who was born on April 23, 1958 in Munich, Germany. Elisabeth Bronfen (born 23 April 1958 in Munich) is a Swiss/German/American literary and cultural critic and academic. She is a chair and professor of English literary studies in the University of Zurich as well as a distinguished professor worldwide in New York University. Her research interests are in the 19th and 20th century, American as well as British literature psychoanalysis, gender studies, and the interplay between various media of culture.

“Home in Hollywood (1999/2004) provides an examination of the depiction of psychological events in films like Rebecca, The Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz, and The Searchers. Particularly, Bronfen traces the depiction of the Freudian Uncanny in these films. Her principal argument is that the “knowledge of the uncanniness of existence” is evident in these films, despite their attempts to make sense of reality, by providing viewers a metaphorical place within the cinematic realm.

In Specters of War (2012), Bronfen analyses how Hollywood cinema and American television come to terms with US military history. From the “unfinished business” of civil war in Gone with the Wind and Gangs of New York to the “choreography of battle” in Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, Bronfen investigates the parallels between military and cinematic spectacle.

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream (2015) is an analysis of Matthew Weiner’s award-winning TV show Mad Men. According to Bronfen, the show not only successfully revives the past, but also comments on the state of the US nation and the role of the American Dream in the 20th century.

in The Knotted Subject (1998), Bronfen relates the “elusive, protean, and enigmatic psychosomatic disorder” of Hysteria to works of Ann Raddcliffe, Anne Sexton, Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg as well as Cindy Sherman. In her research the navel of the human being serves as a metaphor to represent both separation and connection that are connected to the knotted subject that is a hysterical as it also stems from the knot.

Elisabeth Bronfen Net Worth

Elisabeth Bronfen is one of the richest Literary Scholar from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elisabeth Bronfen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Elisabeth Bronfen studied German, English and Comparative literature at Radcliffe College and Harvard. From 1985 to 1992, she was an assistant professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and completed her doctoral dissertation about Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage novels. Bronfen holds a chair on Zurich’s University of Zurich since 1993 in which she wrote her dissertation on rehabilitation, over Her Dead Body (1992).

Over Her Dead Body (1992) Over Her Dead Body (1992), Bronfen presents death as a fundamental flaw which is often discussed with female body parts (be they alive or dead) throughout Western societies and cites Wuthering Heights Frankenstein in addition to Vertigo. The visual and/or literary representation of death could be considered as a manifestation of Western culture, one where the female body is a symbol of the Other that dies as a result of cultural.

In Night Passages (2008/2013), Bronfen traces night as a trope from William Shakespeare through 19th-century realism to film noir and links the nocturnal to the primordial darkness that existed before the advent of in western culture’s “mythic narratives.”

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Elisabeth Ranked on the list of most popular Literary Scholar. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Elisabeth Bronfen celebrates birthday on April 23 of every year.