Gendered memories
Subtitle: transgressions in German and Israeli film and theatre
By: Vera Apfelthaler and Julia B. Köhne (eds.).
Contributors: Apfelthaler, Vera, 1969-; Köhne, Julia B.; Universiṭat Ben-Guryon ba-Negev.
Publisher: Turia + Kant
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9783851324853
Subjects: Gender identity in motion pictures -- Congresses; Gender identity in the theater -- Congresses; Women in motion pictures -- Congresses; Memory (Philosophy) -- Congresses; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: International conference proceedings.

"The texts for "Gendered Memories. Transgressions in German and Israeli Film and Theatre" were written subsequent to the lectures and discussions at the German-Israeli Minerva School "How to Gender Memory. Media and Remembrance in Israel and Germany," ... This international and trans-disciplinary PhD and post-doc conference took place at the Center for German Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel, in May 2005"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : memory, media, gender, and transgressions in/via film and theater / Vera Apfelthaler, Julia B. Köhne; title: Can women's traumas return as film? : Passenger (1961-3) and Witness out of hell (1965-7) / Lihi Nagler; title: Remembering as forgetting in visual culture : the documentary shades of gender in Shoah fiction / Frank Stern; title: Unheroic heroes : re-viewing Roman Polanski's The pianist (2002) in Germany and Israel / Kobi Kabalek; title: The woman and the past : on Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and its meaning for film / Karin Stögner; title: Witnessing, credibility, and female perpetrators : eyewitnesses in television documentaries about national socialism / Judith Keilbach; title: Watching the documentation Children of the Third Reich (1993) : an encounter with descendants of Holocaust survivors and children of perpetrators / Iris Wachsmuth; title: Mein Leben Teil 2 = My life part 2 (2003) : reflections about recent autobiographical documentaries / Hilde W. Hoffmann; title: Between Virgo and virago : spatial perception and gender politics in Austrian film production, 1914-1918 / Thomas Ballhausen; title: Remaking is regendernig : notions of loyalty in the Nibelungen films by Fritz Lang, Harald Reinl, and Uli Edel / Tilo Renz; title: Holocaust representations in Israeli cinema : the same war again and again / Jeannine Levana Frenk; title: What do we do with the past (and who does it)? : a gendered reading of Lea Goldberg's play Ba'alat ha'Armon (1954) / Talila Kosh; title: Exile, nostalgia, and the Unheimlich : the Gesher Theater / Freddie Rokem; title: The castrated villain, still irresistible : comments on the German condition in Heiner Müller's The reisistible rise of Arturo Ui (1995) / Vera Apfelthaler; title: Unifications, reconfigurations, and gender in Smadar Yaaron's performance Wishuponastar : a fatal love story (2005) / Julia B. Köhne.