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1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; Kinder, Kirche, Kino; The Mother-Daughter Plot in History; Self-Consuming Images; Retrieving History; The Autoethnographic Aesthetic of Jeanine Meerapfel's Malou; Epilogue; index |
| Summary |
Annotation German society's inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to Mourn . In this pathfinding study, Susan Linville challenges the accepted wisdom of these books by focusing on a cultural realm in which mourning for the Nazi past and opposing the patriarchal and authoritarian nature of postwar German culture are central concerns-namely, women's feminist auto/biographical films of the 1970s and 1980s. After a broad survey of feminist theory, Linville analyzes five important films that reflect back on the Third Reich through the experiences of women of different ages-Marianne Rosenbaum's Peppermint Peace, Helma Sanders-Brahms's Germany, Pale Mother, Jutta Bruuml;ckner's Hunger Years, Margarethe von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane, and Jeanine Meerapfel's Malou . By juxtaposing these films with the accepted theories on German culture, Linville offers a fresh appraisal not only of the films' importance but especially of their challenge to misogynist interpretations of the German failure to grieve for the horrors of its Nazi past |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion pictures -- Germany -- History
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Women in motion pictures.
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- Germany
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Motion pictures -- Germany -- Psychological aspects
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Guilt.
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guilt.
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PERFORMING ARTS.
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Film & Video / General.
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Guilt
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
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Women in motion pictures
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
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Film.
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780292799721 |
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0292799721 |
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9780292746961 |
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0292746962 |
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