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German cinema : terror and trauma ; cultural memory since 1945 / Thomas Elsaesser

Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019

1. publ.

New York ; London : Routledge, 2014

VI, 346 S

Englisch

Introduction: terror and traumaTerror, trauma, parapraxis. Terror & trauma: Siamese twins of the political discourse -- Holocaust and German cinema: the burden of representation -- The poetics and politics of parapraxis -- Back box: the RAF thirty years after -- Parapractic poetics in German films and cinema. Rescued in vain: parapraxis and deferred action in Konrad Wolf's Stars -- The persistent resistance of Alexander Kluge -- Memory and historicity: the year 1979 and Fassbinder's third generation -- Mourning and masquerade: Herbert Achternbusch's The last hole -- Re-wind after re-play: Harun Farocki's Respite -- Trauma theory reconsidered. From mastering the past to guilt management -- Postscript to trauma theory.

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-415-70927-9 (pbk.); 978-0-415-70926-2 (hardback)

978-1-315-88564-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2013012972

OCoLC: 867140279     

OCoLC: 859540023 (aus SWB)     

AP 44910      Ähnliche Literatur

PN1995.9.T46

791.430943

Basisklassifikation: 24.31 (Systematische Filmwissenschaft) ; 89.58 (Politische Gewalt)

*Deutschland ; Film ; Gewalt <Motiv> ; Terrorismus <Motiv> ; Trauma <Motiv> ; Geschichte 1945-     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Terrorism in motion pictures ; Psychic trauma in motion pictures ; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Germany

Motion pictures ; Psychic trauma in motion pictures ; Terrorism in motion pictures

Includes bibliographical references and index