Feminism, Film, Fascism : Women's Autobiographical Film in Postwar Germany [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Linville Susan E
• Pubblicazione: Austin, TX, USA, : University of Texas Press, 19980401; University of Texas Press
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/0943
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - History - Germany; Women in motion pictures - Psychological aspects - Germany; Women motion picture producers and directors - Germany; Motion pictures; Guilt
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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 Identity 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Feminism, Film, Fascism : Women's Autobiographical Film in Postwar Germany
• ISBN: 0-292-79972-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777359903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II