Contemporary Jewish reality in Germany and its reflection in film / edited by Claudia Simone Dorchain and Felice Naomi Wonnenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorchain, Claudia Simone.

Contributor:

Dorchain, Claudia Simone.

Wonnenberg, Felice Naomi.

Series:

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge ; Bd. 2.

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge = European-Jewish studies. Contributions, 2192-9602 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Germany.

Motion pictures.

Jews--Germany--Identity.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The notion of "self" and "other" and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept of "self" and "other" and its imaginary dichotomy is gaining more and more political impact in a world of resurfacing ideology-ridden conflicts. The essays deal with Jewish reality in contemporary Germany and its reflection in movies from the special point of view of cultural sciences, political sciences, and religious studies. This anthology presents challengingly new insigh

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction / Dorchain, Claudia Simone / Wonnenberg, Felice Naomi

Cusanus, Nietzsche, and Lacan on Reflection / Dorchain, Claudia Simone

Alterophilia or Appropriating the Other / Schmid, Antonia

A Passage to Modernity - The "Iconic Turn" and "Jewish Reality"

Some Filmic Heroines and 'Others' in the GDR Documentary Women in Ravensbrück (1968) / Baumgärtner, Katja S.

A City of Mind / Gromova, Alina

Between Self and Other / Haselberg, Lea Wohl Von

"Unkosher Jewish" - Jewish Popular Culture in Berlin / Albers, Mareike

"Morbid Beauty" as an Aesthetic Concept to Portray "the Jew" in German Film

Between Guilt and Repression - Conversion to Judaism after the Shoa / Steiner, Barbara J.

Can't Get No Satisfaction / Wonnenberg, Felice Naomi

Intra-Activities of the Queer Diaspora / Köppert, Katrin

The Long Shadow of the Holy Cross / Dorchain, Claudia Simone

The Dead Jew as Eternal Other / Speccher, Tommaso

Sissy and the Muscle-Jew Go to the Movies / Wonnenberg, Felice Naomi

Spaces of Memory - Reflections on Social Transformation at the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe

Authors

Index of Persons

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Contains:

Dorchain, Claudia Simone. Cusanus, Nietzsche, and Lacan on reflection.

ISBN:

3-11-026832-9

3-11-026513-3

OCLC:

826480686