"Josef K von 1963...": Orson Welles' ‘Americanized’ Version of The Trial and the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany
This article investigates the reception of the American auteur and actor Orson Welles' adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial in West Germany in 1963. It argues that the film’s ambivalent reception by German critics was closely tied to the process of “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” (coming to t...
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| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2009-08-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/7610 |