Film and Memory in East Germany - Couverture souple

Pinkert, Anke

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253219671 ISBN 13 : 9780253219671

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 antifascist films of the immediate postwar period, which depict the reintegration 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anke Pinkert is Assistant Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published on postwar German literature, film, and cultural history in German Quarterly, Seminar, and Germanic Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253219671
• ISBN 13: 9780253219671
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 275
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• Personne responsable: non disponible