"This is a most comprehensive and insightful account of major developments in West German culture since the 1960s. Film and literature studies often remain in isolation from each other. McCormick brings them together, and his interpretations gather force through their contextual framing. What I particularly like about the book is that it makes significant connections between American and German culture."—Andreas ... Read moreHuyssen, Columbia University "Richard McCormick argues convincingly for a fundamentally historical understanding of postmodernism in literature and in culture in generala postmodernism resulting in large part from the increasing influence of feminism in West German cultural life. The historical examination of the New Left and its shifting view of the `politics of the self' is especially impressive, as is the analysis of the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the post-1968 period."—Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Show Less