Screening War (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on German Suffering
Redaktion: Cooke - See C80107, Paul; Silberman, Marc

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Produktbeschreibung

Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.

The recent "discovery" of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated Downfall (2004) and the two-part television mini-series Dresden (2006) have shown how ordinary Germans suffered during and after the war. Such films have been presented by critics as treating a topic that had been taboo for German filmmakers. However, the representation of wartime suffering has a long tradition on the German screen. For decades, filmmakers have recontextualized images of Germans as victims to engage shifting social and ideological discourses. By focusing on this process, the present volume explores how the changing representation of Germans as victims has shaped the ways in which both of the postwar German states and the now-unified nation have attempted to facethe trauma of the past and to construct a contemporary place for themselves in the world.

Contributors: Seán Allan, Tim Bergfelder, Daniela Berghahn, Erica Carter, David Clarke, John E. Davidson, Sabine Hake, JenniferKapczynski, Manuel Köppen, Rachel Palfreyman, Brad Prager, Johannes von Moltke.

Paul Cooke is Professor of German Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and Marc Silberman is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571137142
• Artikelnr.: 63918689

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: German Suffering? - Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman Armchair
Warriors: Heroic Postures in the West German War Film - Jennifer M.
Kapczynski German Martyrs: Images of Christianity and Resistance to
National Socialism in German Cinema - David Clarke The Rhetoric of Victim
Narratives in West German Films of the 1950s - Manuel Koeppen Sissi the
Terrible: Melodrama, Victimhood, and Imperial Nostalgia in the Sissi
Trilogy - Erica Carter Political Affects: Antifascism and the Second World
War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf - Sabine Hake Shadowlands: The Memory of
the Ostgebiete in Contemporary German Film and Television - Tim Bergfelder
Links and Chains: Trauma between the Generations in the Heimat Mode -
Rachel Palfreyman Resistance of the Heart: Female Suffering and Victimhood
in DEFA's Antifascist Films - Daniela Berghahn Suffering and Sympathy in
Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA - Brad
Prager Eberhard Fechner's History of Suffering: TV Talk, Temporal Distance,
Spatial Displacement - John Davidson The Politics of Feeling: Alexander
Kluge on War, Film, and Emotion - Johannes von Moltke Post-unification
German-Jewish Relations and the Discourse of Victimhood in Dani Levy's
Films - Sean Allan