East German Film and the Holocaust

East Germany's ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany's name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner - a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political.

Info autore

Elizabeth Ward is a Lecturer in German Studies and specializes in German film. She is a lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research fellow at the Universität Leipzig. She has published on East German cinema, contemporary Holocaust film and twenty-first century German cinema. She is the co-editor of Entertaining German Culture Contemporary Transnational Television and Film (Berghahn Books, 2023).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Ward, Ward Elizabeth
• Editore: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781805391456
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-145-6
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Film Europa
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, The Holocaust, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, East Germany, Ddr, Film history, theory or criticism