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Beschreibung
Anke Pinkert explores films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone and East Germany from the end of World War II through the early 1960s, offering new insights into how Germans dealt with the aftermath of the war. In her cultural analysis of the relationship between modern historical violence, cultural memory, and cinematic representation, Pinkert argues that the cinematic productions of East Germany offer a corrective to misperceptions about German responses to the legacy of the war.

Film and Memory in East Germany considers anti-fascist films of the immediate post-war period, which depict the re-integration of former soldiers into society and the crisis of masculinity that accompanied the aftermath of the war; the socialist films of the late 1940s and 1950s, which attempt to shape a new national imaginary through stories of exemplary socialist womanhood; and, finally, the cinematic return to 1945 in socialist modernist films of the 1960s.
Anke Pinkert explores films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone and East Germany from the end of World War II through the early 1960s, offering new insights into how Germans dealt with the aftermath of the war. In her cultural analysis of the relationship between modern historical violence, cultural memory, and cinematic representation, Pinkert argues that the cinematic productions of East Germany offer a corrective to misperceptions about German responses to the legacy of the war.

Film and Memory in East Germany considers anti-fascist films of the immediate post-war period, which depict the re-integration of former soldiers into society and the crisis of masculinity that accompanied the aftermath of the war; the socialist films of the late 1940s and 1950s, which attempt to shape a new national imaginary through stories of exemplary socialist womanhood; and, finally, the cinematic return to 1945 in socialist modernist films of the 1960s.
Über den Autor
Anke Pinkert
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Cinematic Specters of History as Memory

Part 1. Vanishing Returnees: War Trauma, Antifascism, and the Crisis of Masculinity (1940s)

1. Flashbacks and Psyche-The Murderers Are among Us

2. Grieving Dead Soldiers-Somewhere in Berlin

3. Psychotic Breaks and Conjugal Rubble-Wozzeck

4. Suicidal Males and Reconstruction-Our Daily Bread

Part 2. Fantasmatic Fullness: Strained Female Subjectivity and Socialist Dreams (1950s)

5. Silent Mothers: Air War as Intimate Memory-Rotation

6. Stalin's Daughters on the Verge-The Story of a Young Couple and Destinies of Women

7. Missing Smile: Psychic Paralysis and Production-Sun Seekers

Part 3. Germany, Year Zero: Recasting the Past in the Present (1960s)

8. Postmelancholic Memory Projections-I Was Nineteen

9. Modern Loss and Mourning Plays-Born in '45

Epilogue: Vacant History, Empty Screens-Postcommunist Films of the 1990s

Filmography

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Details
Empfohlen (von): 22
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780253219671
ISBN-10: 0253219671
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pinkert, Anke
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Anke Pinkert
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2008
Gewicht: 0,445 kg
Artikel-ID: 132525059

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