Screening war
Subtitle: perspectives on German suffering
By: edited by Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman
Series: Screen cultures; Screen cultures
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781571134370
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: German suffering? / Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman; title: Hidden screens: soldiers, martyrs, innocent German victims. Armchair warriors: heroic postures in the West German war film / Jennifer M. Kapczynski; title: German martyrs: images of Christianity and resistance to national socialism in German cinema / David Clarke; title: The rhetoric of victim narratives in West German films of the 1950s / Manuel Köppen; title: Projection screens: disavowing loss, transforming antifascism, contesting memories. Sissi the terrible: melodrama, victimhood, and imperial nostalgia in the Sissi trilogy / Erica Carter; title: Political affects: antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf / Sabine Hake; title: Shadowlands: the memory of the Ostgebiete in contemporary German film and television / Tim Bergfelder; title: Display screens: generational traumas, untimely passions, open wounds. Links and chains: trauma between the generations in the Heimat mode / Rachel Palfreyman; title: Resistance of the heart: female suffering and victimhood in DEFA's antifascist films / Daniela Berghahn; title: Suffering and sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA / Brad Prager; title: Split screens: ambiguous authorities, decentered emotions, performed identities. Eberhard Fechner's history of suffering: TV talk, temporal distance, spatial displacement / John E. Davidson; title: The politics of feeling: Alexander Kluge on war, film, and emotion / Johannes von Moltke; title: Post-unification German-Jewish relations and the discourse of victimhood in Dani Levy's films / Seán Allan.