Screening War: Perspectives on German SufferingPaul Cooke, Marc Silberman Camden House, 2010 - 304 oldal 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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Armchair Warriors Heroic Postures in | 17 |
German Martyrs Images of Christianity and Resistance | 36 |
The Rhetoric of Victim Narratives in West German Films | 56 |
Sissi the Terrible Melodrama Victimhood | 81 |
Political Affects Antifascism and the Second World War | 102 |
Shadowlands The Memory of the Ostgebiete | 123 |
Links and Chains Trauma between the Generations in | 145 |
Resistance of the Heart Female Suffering and Victimhood | 165 |
Suffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorffs | 187 |
Eberhard Fechners History of Suffering TV Talk | 209 |
The Politics of Feeling Alexander Kluge on War Film | 230 |
Postunification GermanJewish Relations and | 251 |
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Notes on the Contributors | 287 |
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