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From Hitler to Heimat : the return of history as film / Anton Kaes.
LIBRA PN1993.5.G3 K2913 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaes, Anton.
- Standardized Title:
- Deutschlandbilder. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Germany (West)--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture plays, German.
- Germany (West).
- History.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Germany (West).
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion picture plays, German--Germany (West)--History and criticism.
- Motion pictures and history.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- West German filmmakers have tried repeatedly over the past half-century to come to terms with Germany's stigmatized history. How can Hitler and the Holocaust, how can the complicity and shame of the average German be narrated and visualized? How can Auschwitz be reconstructed? Anton Kaes argues that a major shift in German attitudes occurred in the mid-1970s - a shift best illustrated in films of the New German Cinema, which have focused less on guilt and atonement than on personal memory and yearning for a national identity.
- Contents:
- Images of history: postwar German films and the Third Reich
- Germany as myth: Hans Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler, a film from Germany
- The presence of the past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The marriage of Maria Braun
- In search of Germany: Alexander Kluge's The patriot
- Our childhoods, ourselves: Helma Sanders-Brahms's Germany, pale mother
- Germany as memory: Edgar Reitz's Heimat
- Epilogue: History, memory, and film.
- Notes:
- Rev. and enl. translation of: Deutschlandbilder.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674324560
- 9780674324565
- 0674324552
- 9780674324558
- OCLC:
- 84852033
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