Anti-Heimat cinema : the Jewish invention of the German landscape / Ofer Ashkenazi

Englisch

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, August 2020

ix, 302 Seiten : Illustrationen

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-288

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Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Ashkenazi, ʿOfer *1974-*: Anti-Heimat cinema. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020. - 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 302 Seiten)

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*Deutschland / Juden / Heimatfilm / Identität

*Deutschland / Heimatfilm / Identität / Geschichte 1918-1968

*Deutschland / Heimatfilm / Judenbild / Geschichte 1918-1968

*Heimatfilme -- History and criticism ; Jews in motion pictures -- Germany ; Jews in the motion picture industry -- Germany ; Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PN1995.9.H4

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 791.436552 ; 791.43/6552

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AP 59610: A Allgemeines / AP Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Kommunikationsdesign / Deutschland

This book studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers’ contemplations of “Heimat” – a provincial German landscape associated with belonging and authenticity – it analyzes their distinctive contribution to the German identity discourse between 1918 and 1968. In its emphasis on rootedness and homogeneity Heimat seemed to challenge the validity and significance of Jewish emancipation. Several acculturation-seeking Jewish artists and intellectuals, however, endeavored to conceive a notion of Heimat that would rather substantiate their belonging. This book considers Jewish filmmakers’ contribution to this endeavor. It shows how they devised the landscapes of the German “Homeland” as Jews, namely, as acculturated “outsiders within.” Through appropriation of generic Heimat imagery, the films discussed in the book integrate criticism of national chauvinism into German mainstream culture from World War I to the Cold War. Consequently, these Jewish filmmakers anticipated the anti-Heimat film of the ensuing decades, and functioned as an uncredited inspiration for the critical New German Cinema.

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