Thomas Elsaesser

German Cinema - Terror and Trauma (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Memory Since 1945

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In German Cinema - Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory today. Elsaesser argues that Germany's attempts at "mastering the past" can be seen as both a failure and an achievement, making it appropriate to speak of an ongoing 'guilt management' that includes not only Germany, but Europe as a whole. In a series of case studies, which consider the work of Konrad Wolf, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herbert Achterbusch and Harun Farocki, as well as films made in the new century, Elsaesser tracks the different ways the Holocaust is present in German cinema from the 1950s onwards, even when it is absent, or referenced in oblique and hyperbolic ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134627646
• Artikelnr.: 39937546

Autorenporträt

Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam and since 2006 Visiting Professor at Yale University. His recent books include: Weimar Cinema and After (Routledge 2000); Metropolis (BFI 2000); Studying Contemporary American Film (Hodder 2002, with Warren Buckland); European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (Amsterdam University Press 2005); Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (Routledge 2010, with Malte Hagener); and The Persistence of Hollywood (Routledge 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Terror and Trauma Part I: Terror, Trauma, Parapraxis 1.
Terror & Trauma: Siamese Twins of the Political Discourse 2. Memory Frames
and Witnessing: Burdens of Representation and Holocaust Films 3. The
Poetics and Politics of Parapraxis 4. Generational Memory: The RAF
Afterlife in the New Century Part II. Parapractic Poetics in German Films
and Cinema 5. Rescued in Vain: Parapraxis and Deferred Action in Konrad
Wolf's Stars 6. The Persistent Resistance of Alexander Kluge 7. Retroactive
Causality and the Present: Fassbinder's The Third Generation 8. Mourning as
Mimicry and Masquerade: Herbert Achternbusch's The Last Hole 9. Re-wind
after Re-play: Harun Farocki's Respite Part III: Trauma Theory Reconsidered
10. From Mastering the Past to Managing Guilt: Holocaust Memory in the New
Century 12. Postscript to Trauma Theory