Dr Nick Hodgin
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Nick Hodgin
Senior Lecturer
Literatures & Visual Cultures
Overview
Areas I research: Cultural and Historical Studies; Film and Visual Culture; Trauma and Memory; East German History
Things I write: articles, books, book chapters, reviews, papers; reports for publishers; peer review reports for journals.
Subjects I teach: history, media, cultural studies, film, literature, politics.
Publication
2026
- Hodgin, N. 2026. Palast der Republik, haus der lüge. Die vielen leben des Ostberliner aushangeschilds. In: Rottjer, J. and Szumski, J. eds. Transformation der Aufarbeitung – Transformation der Erinnerung Umbenennung und Denkmalsturz in der Republik Polen und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1990. Vol. 43, Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts, Darmstadt Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz
2024
- Hodgin, N. 2024. ‘How far can you go?’: Everyday lives in the films of Kurt Tetzlaff. In: Allan, S. and Heiduschke, S. eds. Documenting Socialism: East German Documentary Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. , pp.116-136. (10.3167/9781805396574)
- Hodgin, N. 2024. Construction, demolition, extirpation? The Palast der Republik and the conflicting desires of German unification. German Life and Letters 77 (2), pp.238-262. (10.1111/glal.12409)
2019
- Hodgin, N. 2019. Futures remembered: Kosmonauts, the GDR, and the retrospective impulse. In: Skrodzka, A. , Lu, X. and Marciniak, K. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Oxford Handbooks Oxford: Oxford University Press(10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.013.28)
2018
- Hodgin, N. 2018. 'Like a Dream': Film, fears, fantasies and nightmares of the Wende. In: Byrnes, D. , Conacher, J. E. and Holfter, G. eds. Reunification and the Legacy of East-German Literature and Culture. Brill. , pp.17-32.
2017
- Hodgin, N. and Thakkar, A. eds. 2017. Scars and wounds: film and legacies of trauma. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-319-41024-1)
- Preece, J. and Hodgin, N. eds. 2017. Andreas Dresen. Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers Vol. 4Peter Lang.
- Hodgin, N. 2017. Introduction: Trauma studies, film and the scar motif. In: Hodgin, N. and Thakkar, A. eds. Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma. Basingstoke: Palgrave. , pp.1-29.
- Hodgin, N. 2017. Proximity and distance: approaching trauma in Katrina Films. In: Hodgin, N. and Thakkar, A. eds. Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma. Basingstoke: Palgrave. , pp.101-126.
2016
- Hodgin, N. 2016. DEFA's Last Gasp. Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking. In: Allan, S. and Heiduschke, S. eds. RE-Imagining DEFA East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts. Berghahn Books. , pp.271-292.
- Hodgin, N. 2016. The cosmopolitan Communist: Joris Ivens, transnational film-maker before transnationalism?. Transnational Cinemas 7 (1), pp.34-49. (10.1080/20403526.2016.1140947)
2015
- Hodgin, N. 2015. 'Only one noble topic remained: the workers.' Sympathy, subtlety and subversion in East German documentary films. Studies in Eastern European Cinema 6 (1), pp.49-63. (10.1080/2040350X.2014.992130)
- Hodgin, N. 2015. East Germany revisited, reimagined, repositioned: Representing the GDR in Dominik Graf's Der rote Kakadu (2005) and Christian Petzold's Barbara (2012). In: Gott, M. and Herzog, T. eds. East, West and Centre: Reframing post-1989 European Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. , pp.237-252.
- Hodgin, N. 2015. In praise of authenticity? Atmosphere, song, and Southern states of mind in Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus. In: Mazierska, E. and Gregory, G. eds. Relocating Popular Music. Pop Music, Culture and Identity Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.186-206. (10.1057/9781137463388_10)
2014
- Hodgin, N. 2014. Cannibals, carnival and clowns: the grotesque in German unification films. Studies in Eastern European Cinema 5 (2), pp.124-138. (10.1080/17411548.2014.925333)
- Hodgin, N. 2014. Chingachgook, the great snake. In: Langford, M. ed. Directory of World Cinema: German 2. Intellect. , pp.108-109.
- Hodgin, N. 2014. The sons of Great Bear. In: Langford, M. ed. Directory of World Cinema: German 2. Intellect. , pp.104-106.
- Hodgin, N. 2014. Trail of the falcon. In: Langford, M. ed. Directory of World Cinema: German 2. Intellect. , pp.110-112.
- Hodgin, N. 2014. Alternative realities and authenticity in DEFA's documentary films. In: Silberman, M. and Wrage, H. eds. DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture: A Companion. Companions to Contemporary German Culture Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. , pp.281-304.
2011
- Hodgin, N. 2011. Aiming to please? Consensus and consciousness-raising in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). In: Cooke, P. and Homewood, C. eds. New Directions in German Cinema. Taurus World Cinema Series I.B. Tauris. , pp.94-112.
- Hodgin, N. 2011. Screening the East: Heimat, memory and nostalgia in German film since 1989. Film Europa Berghahn Books.
- Hodgin, N. and Pearce, C. eds. 2011. The GDR remembered: Representations of the East German state since 1989. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Boydell & Brewer, Camden House. (10.7722/j.ctt1x71tf)
- Hodgin, N. 2011. Screening the Stasi: the politics of representation in postunification film. In: Hodgin, N. and Pearce, C. eds. The GDR Remembered: Representations of the East German State since 1989. Camden House/Boydell&Brewer. , pp.69-92.
- Hodgin, N. and Pearce, C. 2011. Introduction. In: Hodgin, N. and Pearce, C. eds. The GDR Remembered: Representations of the East German State since 1989. Camden House/Boydell&Brewer. , pp.1-16.
2010
- Hodgin, N. 2010. Eastern blues, southern comforts: searching for Heimat on the Bayous. Mississippi Quarterly 3-4 , pp.512-534.
2007
- Hodgin, N. 2007. Marginalized subjects, mainstream objectives: insights on outsiders in recent German Film. New Readings 8 , pp.1-21. (10.18573/newreadings.55)
2006
- Hodgin, N. 2006. Berlin is in Germany and good bye Lenin! taking leave of the GDR?. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 12 (1), pp.25-45. (10.1080/0965156042000230106)
Articles
- Hodgin, N. 2024. Construction, demolition, extirpation? The Palast der Republik and the conflicting desires of German unification. German Life and Letters 77 (2), pp.238-262. (10.1111/glal.12409)
- Hodgin, N. 2016. The cosmopolitan Communist: Joris Ivens, transnational film-maker before transnationalism?. Transnational Cinemas 7 (1), pp.34-49. (10.1080/20403526.2016.1140947)
- Hodgin, N. 2015. 'Only one noble topic remained: the workers.' Sympathy, subtlety and subversion in East German documentary films. Studies in Eastern European Cinema 6 (1), pp.49-63. (10.1080/2040350X.2014.992130)
- Hodgin, N. 2014. Cannibals, carnival and clowns: the grotesque in German unification films. Studies in Eastern European Cinema 5 (2), pp.124-138. (10.1080/17411548.2014.925333)
- Hodgin, N. 2010. Eastern blues, southern comforts: searching for Heimat on the Bayous. Mississippi Quarterly 3-4 , pp.512-534.
- Hodgin, N. 2007. Marginalized subjects, mainstream objectives: insights on outsiders in recent German Film. New Readings 8 , pp.1-21. (10.18573/newreadings.55)
- Hodgin, N. 2006. Berlin is in Germany and good bye Lenin! taking leave of the GDR?. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 12 (1), pp.25-45. (10.1080/0965156042000230106)
Book sections
- Hodgin, N. 2026. Palast der Republik, haus der lüge. Die vielen leben des Ostberliner aushangeschilds. In: Rottjer, J. and Szumski, J. eds. Transformation der Aufarbeitung – Transformation der Erinnerung Umbenennung und Denkmalsturz in der Republik Polen und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1990. Vol. 43, Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts, Darmstadt Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz
- Hodgin, N. 2024. ‘How far can you go?’: Everyday lives in the films of Kurt Tetzlaff. In: Allan, S. and Heiduschke, S. eds. Documenting Socialism: East German Documentary Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. , pp.116-136. (10.3167/9781805396574)
- Hodgin, N. 2019. Futures remembered: Kosmonauts, the GDR, and the retrospective impulse. In: Skrodzka, A. , Lu, X. and Marciniak, K. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Oxford Handbooks Oxford: Oxford University Press(10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.013.28)
- Hodgin, N. 2018. 'Like a Dream': Film, fears, fantasies and nightmares of the Wende. In: Byrnes, D. , Conacher, J. E. and Holfter, G. eds. Reunification and the Legacy of East-German Literature and Culture. Brill. , pp.17-32.
- Hodgin, N. 2017. Introduction: Trauma studies, film and the scar motif. In: Hodgin, N. and Thakkar, A. eds. Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma. Basingstoke: Palgrave. , pp.1-29.
- Hodgin, N. 2017. Proximity and distance: approaching trauma in Katrina Films. In: Hodgin, N. and Thakkar, A. eds. Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma. Basingstoke: Palgrave. , pp.101-126.
- Hodgin, N. 2016. DEFA's Last Gasp. Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking. In: Allan, S. and Heiduschke, S. eds. RE-Imagining DEFA East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts. Berghahn Books. , pp.271-292.
- Hodgin, N. 2015. East Germany revisited, reimagined, repositioned: Representing the GDR in Dominik Graf's Der rote Kakadu (2005) and Christian Petzold's Barbara (2012). In: Gott, M. and Herzog, T. eds. East, West and Centre: Reframing post-1989 European Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. , pp.237-252.
- Hodgin, N. 2015. In praise of authenticity? Atmosphere, song, and Southern states of mind in Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus. In: Mazierska, E. and Gregory, G. eds. Relocating Popular Music. Pop Music, Culture and Identity Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.186-206. (10.1057/9781137463388_10)
- Hodgin, N. 2014. Chingachgook, the great snake. In: Langford, M. ed. Directory of World Cinema: German 2. Intellect. , pp.108-109.
- Hodgin, N. 2014. The sons of Great Bear. In: Langford, M. ed. Directory of World Cinema: German 2. Intellect. , pp.104-106.
- Hodgin, N. 2014. Trail of the falcon. In: Langford, M. ed. Directory of World Cinema: German 2. Intellect. , pp.110-112.
- Hodgin, N. 2014. Alternative realities and authenticity in DEFA's documentary films. In: Silberman, M. and Wrage, H. eds. DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture: A Companion. Companions to Contemporary German Culture Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. , pp.281-304.
- Hodgin, N. 2011. Aiming to please? Consensus and consciousness-raising in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). In: Cooke, P. and Homewood, C. eds. New Directions in German Cinema. Taurus World Cinema Series I.B. Tauris. , pp.94-112.
- Hodgin, N. 2011. Screening the Stasi: the politics of representation in postunification film. In: Hodgin, N. and Pearce, C. eds. The GDR Remembered: Representations of the East German State since 1989. Camden House/Boydell&Brewer. , pp.69-92.
- Hodgin, N. and Pearce, C. 2011. Introduction. In: Hodgin, N. and Pearce, C. eds. The GDR Remembered: Representations of the East German State since 1989. Camden House/Boydell&Brewer. , pp.1-16.
Books
- Hodgin, N. and Thakkar, A. eds. 2017. Scars and wounds: film and legacies of trauma. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-319-41024-1)
- Preece, J. and Hodgin, N. eds. 2017. Andreas Dresen. Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers Vol. 4Peter Lang.
- Hodgin, N. 2011. Screening the East: Heimat, memory and nostalgia in German film since 1989. Film Europa Berghahn Books.
- Hodgin, N. and Pearce, C. eds. 2011. The GDR remembered: Representations of the East German state since 1989. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Boydell & Brewer, Camden House. (10.7722/j.ctt1x71tf)
Research
Research interests: Politics of Culture and Visual Studies; German Cinema and Documentary Film; East German and Eastern European Cultural Histories; Trauma, Nostalgia, and Cultural Memory; Communist archiecture; Far Right populism; Music Sub-cultures.
Current work: Post-Unification Germany and Loss; Cold War narratives (Film and television); Art and visual culture in the GDR (East Germany).
Teaching
People I teach: Undergraduates and Postgraduates in School of Modern Languages
Biography
At Cardiff since 2017
Univiersities where I previously worked: Liverpool, Manchester, Lancaster, Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield.
Supervisions
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Current supervision
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Research themes
Specialisms
- 20th Century
- 21st century
- Germany
- GDR
- Film History