Feminism, film, fascism : women's auto/biographical film in postwar Germany / Susan E. Linville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linville, Susan E., (Susan Elizabeth), 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History.

Women in motion pictures.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Germany.

Motion pictures--Germany--Psychological aspects.

Guilt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st University of Texas Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Filmography: p. [171].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79972-1

OCLC:

300768018