ISBN:
9780472132010
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 302 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ashkenazi, ʿOfer, 1974 - Anti-Heimat cinema
DDC:
791.436552
Keywords:
Heimatfilme History and criticism
;
Jews in motion pictures
;
Jews in the motion picture industry
;
Motion pictures History 20th century
;
Deutschland
;
Juden
;
Heimatfilm
;
Identität
;
Geschichte 1918-1968
;
Deutschland
;
Heimatfilm
;
Identität
;
Geschichte 1918-1968
;
Deutschland
;
Heimatfilm
;
Judenbild
;
Geschichte 1918-1968
Abstract:
Klappentext: "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" 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 One 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.--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://www.press.umich.edu/10195531/anti_heimat_cinema
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10195586
