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This book also owes its existence to the financial support I have received. I would like to thank the German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD), the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in Freiburg e.V. and the Sonderforschungsbereich 541 “Identitäten und Alteritäten” for the funding of my two stays at the British Film Institute (bfi) in London.
Furthermore, I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Albrecht, the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law in Freiburg, for granting me access to the library of his institute. In particular my historical analyses of the prison experience have greatly benefited from the material in this library.
I am also indebted to Dr. Rebecca Davies, Dr. Kerstin Fest, Jon Harty, Dr. Manfred Jahn, Frank Lauterbach, Dr. Thomas Lederer, Dr. Miriam Nandi, Neal O’Donoghue, and Dr. Greta Olson for their comments and encouragement.
My thanks are also due to Dr. Jochen Petzold who drew my attention to Cambria’s new series in Literature, Film, and Theory. I would also like to thank C.A. Murphy, Toni Tan, and others at Cambria Press, as well as the anonymous readers of the manuscript, for their invaluable guidance during the process of turning the manuscript into a book.
Moreover, I want to thank Anja, Quirin, and my parents, Barbara and Wolf-Dietrich Alber, as well as Andi, Axel, Beate, Dieter, Helge, Irmi, Katerina, Kathi, Katrin, Luise, Matthias, Miriam, Neumi, Sandra, Thomas, Ursula, and Valeska for being there. Finally, I am indebted to my brother Jörg, whose way of looking at things I have always greatly admired. My greetings go to him and the people of Escanda in the north of Spain.