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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Aug 19

Just one more!

Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Aug 19

These would later inspire the visual style of Fritz Murnau's 2-part epic, Die Niebelungen

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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Aug 19

Carl Otto Czeschka's magnificent illustrations for Die Niebelung.

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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Aug 15

The fall semester approaches!

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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · Aug 13

Folks interested in German colonialism, If you're looking for a sneak peak at my new book, 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa', the introduction is now free to read online for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60083/c...

Introduction: German Samoa as Liberal Colony

Abstract. This opening chapter assesses the position of A Pacific Power in the current historiography. It describes its relationship to colonial history, P

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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Jul 30

What can a vampire story tell us about our evolving fears about modern life?

Read my new essay with @sensesofcinema.bsky.social, "A Death of Despair in Wisborg"

www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...

A Death of Despair in Wisborg – Senses of Cinema

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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · Jul 30

The best book on the subject yet and probably ever

Tony Cowan @tonycowan5.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hurray! The paperback edition of my book ‘Holding Out’ has just been published. It’s flying off the shelves, so don’t delay, buy today!

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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Jul 30

Considering these iterations in sequence, allows us to appreciate broader transformations in fundamental assumptions about gender, familiarity, and authority over the past 125 years.

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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Jul 30

The essay considers Robert Eggers’s 2024 adaptation of Fritz Murnau’s 1922 film, Nosferatu, itself an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I examine how key differences in each iteration of this story reflect the anxieties of their filmmakers and surrounding societies.

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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Jul 30

What can a vampire story tell us about our evolving fears about modern life?

Read my new essay with @sensesofcinema.bsky.social, "A Death of Despair in Wisborg"

www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...

A Death of Despair in Wisborg – Senses of Cinema

www.sensesofcinema.com

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Jul 30

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of.

Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Jul 30

From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Jul 29

I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.

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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Jul 29

I just saw this. It looks like an amazing resource for anybody who teaches on Weimar film. I know I’m going to raid it for the next iteration of “German History through Film”.

Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Delighted to announce that I have joined WeimarCinema.org as Associate Editor, working alongside Anton Kaes & Cynthia Walk! Followers may be interested to read the latest issue which includes a dossier on Pandora's Box by Shoshana Schwebel! www.weimarcinema.org/page/pandora...

Die Büchse der Pandora

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Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'm currently writing a book on Germany's occupation of Russian Poland during the First World War. I argue that this occupation fundamentally transformed how German military, political, and intellectual elites understood the relationship between ethnic diversity and imperial stability.

Mark T. Kettler @marktkettler.bsky.social · Jul 29

Well, I finally got around to creating an account. Follow-me if you are interested in modern German History, the First World War in particular.

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