Film and Memory in East Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Film and Memory in East Germany write by Anke Pinkert. This book was released on 2008. Film and Memory in East Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rethinks the politics of public memory in East German film
East German Film and the Holocaust
East German Film and the Holocaust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East German Film and the Holocaust write by Elizabeth Ward. This book was released on 2021-04-01. East German Film and the Holocaust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner – a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political.
Screening the East
Screening the East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Screening the East write by Nick Hodgin. This book was released on 2011-05-01. Screening the East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Screening the East considers German filmmakers’ responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity. The book identifies and analyses a large number of films, from internationally successful box-office hits, to lesser-known productions, many of which are discussed here for the first time. Providing an insight into the films’ historical and political context, it considers related issues such as stereotyping, racism, regional particularism and the Germans’ confrontation with the past.
Tailoring Truth
Tailoring Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tailoring Truth write by Jon Berndt Olsen. This book was released on 2017-06. Tailoring Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted to control public representations of the past to legitimize its rule. It demonstrates that the regime’s approach to memory politics was not stagnant, but rather evolved over time to meet different demands and potential threats to its legitimacy. Ultimately the party found it increasingly difficult to control the public portrayal of the past, and some dissidents were able to turn the party’s memory politics against the state to challenge its claims of moral authority.
Dis-membering and Re-membering the GDR
Dis-membering and Re-membering the GDR - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dis-membering and Re-membering the GDR write by Wendy Catherine Graham Westphal. This book was released on 2010. Dis-membering and Re-membering the GDR available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation examines the contemporary portrayal of the GDR in German "Wendeliteratur" and "Wendefilm ". Specifically, I investigate what techniques are used to claim a collective identity and how real and fictional memories are constructed and authenticated. The memory of East Germany is currently undergoing a formative process as past events are being re-evaluated in the context of a Post-Unification society. These emerging collective memories will shape the Post-Unification German identity. Based on current theoretical discussion of cultural memory (i.e., Jan and Aleida Assmann, Pierre Nora, Maurice Halbwachs) in conjunction with detailed literary analysis, I examine the complex and often ambiguous nature of these processes. Both semi-autobiographical narratives like Jana Hensel's Zonenkinder (2003) and fictional texts like Thomas Brussig's novel Sonnenallee (1999) are intended in part as stable "Identitatsangebote ", offering an identity framework for a generation of disoriented East Germans. I show, however, that through narrative instability, these texts undermine their own intentions, both creating and reflecting a volatile and insecure East German identity. Furthermore, while these and other works (like the films Good Bye, Lenin (2003) and Das Leben der Anderen (2006)) make vigorous claims to authenticity, I illustrate how they simultaneously negate these assertions by questioning the validity of personal memories and emphasizing the fluid border between fact and fiction.
