Cinema as a Political Media : : Germany and Italy Compared, 1945-1950s / / Lutz Klinkhammer, Clemens Zimmermann.

• Superior document: Online-Schriften des DHI Rom
• VerfasserIn: Klinkhammer, Lutz,; Zimmermann, Clemens,
• TeilnehmendeR: Zimmermann, Clemens,
• Place / Publishing House: Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Online-Schriften des DHI Rom.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 231 pages) :; illustrations.

Aus einem vergleichenden, transnationalen Ansatz heraus nimmt die internationale Autorengruppe die jeweiligen nationalen Interpretationen der Vergangenheit in Deutschland und Italien, wie sie sich im Medium des Films zwischen 1945 und etwa 1955 darstellen, in den Blick und thematisiert auch die wechselseitige Wahrnehmung der Filme. In den 12 Beiträgen werden sowohl die filmischen Erzählmuster von wichtigen Einzelwerken analysiert als auch der zeitgenössische Kontext der Debatte über die Schrecken und Traumata der nationalsozialistischen wie faschistischen Vergangenheit in den beiden Ländern einbezogen.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Cinema as a Political Medium - Germany and Italy Compared from 1945 to the 1950s. The Aims of this Volume -- Film Policies and Cinema Audiences in Germany -- Narrative Patterns in Anti-Fascist American, Soviet and European Films (1940-1950) -- Bodies of Evidence, Burdens of Proof. Reason before the Court of Cinema after the Third Reich -- Building Figurations of Contingent and Substantial Communities. Differences between Italian and German Post-war Cinema Aesthetics -- Politics, Moral and Cinema. Catholic Film Work in Post-war Germany -- European Critical Film Culture. Italian and Western German Film Magazines in an International Context -- Production, Myth and Misprision in Early Holocaust Cinema."L'ebreo errante" (Goffredo Alessandrini, 1948) -- "Italians and not Italians". Fascism and National Identity in Post-war Italian Cinema -- Images of Germans in Post-war Italian Cinema -- Where Do We Go from Here? The Moral and Material Reconstruction of Italian Cinema after World War II (1945-1955) -- Popular and Catholic Cinema in Italy, 1944-1954. What Kind of Lessons about the Past Did the "Morally Sane" and Educating Film Communicate to Italian Audiences? -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles.