Feminism, Film, Fascism : : Women's Auto/biographical Film in Postwar Germany / / Susan E. Linville.
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 b...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Seeing Through he "Postwar" Years -- 1 Kinder, Kirche, Kino: The Optical Politics of Marianne Rosenbaum's Peppermint Peace -- 2 The mother-daughter plot in history: Helma Sander-Brahm's Germany, pale mother -- 3 Self-consuming Images: The Idenity Politics of Jutta Brückner;s Hunger Years -- 4 Rertieving History: Margarethe von Tro -- 5 The Autoethnographic aesthetic of Jeanine Meerapfel's Malou -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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 Brückner'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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780292799721 9783110745351 |
DOI: | 10.7560/746961 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Susan E. Linville. |