Feminism, Film, Fascism

Women's Auto/Biographical Film in Postwar Germany

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de Susan E. Linville

Type

Studies

Sujet

Countries > Germany

Mots Clés

Germany, women, feminism, Nazi ideology

Année d'édition

1998

Editeur

University of Texas Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 208 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15.5 x 21.5 cm)

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ISBN-13

0-274-70528-1
978-0-274-70528-3

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

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