Research Catalog

Title

Screening war : perspectives on German suffering / edited by Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman.

Publication

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cooke, Paul, 1969-
• Silberman, Marc, 1948-

Description

vi, 304 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Screen cultures

Uniform Title

Screen cultures.

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war
• War films > Germany > History > 20th century
• Suffering in motion pictures
• Psychic trauma in motion pictures
• Germans in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: German suffering? / Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman -- Hidden screens: soldiers, martyrs, innocent German victims. 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 Köppen -- Projection screens: disavowing loss, transforming antifascism, contesting memories. 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 -- Display screens: generational traumas, untimely passions, open wounds. 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 -- Split screens: ambiguous authorities, decentered emotions, performed identities. Eberhard Fechner's history of suffering: TV talk, temporal distance, spatial displacement / John E. 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 / Seán Allan.

Call Number

JFE 10-5780

ISBN

• 9781571134370 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1571134379 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010002833

OCLC

YBP 2010002833

Title

Screening war : perspectives on German suffering / edited by Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman.

Imprint

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2010.

Series

Screen cultures

Screen cultures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Cooke, Paul, 1969- Editor

Silberman, Marc, 1948- Editor

Research Call Number

JFE 10-5780