Screening War - Perspectives on German Suffering

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Paul Cooke
• Assisted by: Paul Cooke (Editor), Paul Cooke - See C80107 (Editor), Paul Cooke -. See C80107 (Editor), Marc Silberman (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2010
• EAN: 9781571134370
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-437-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 257 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Screen Cultures: German Film a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)