Feminism, film, fascism : women's auto/biographical film in postwar Germany /
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| Author / Creator: | Linville, Susan E., (Susan Elizabeth), 1949- |
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| Edition: | 1st University of Texas Press ed. |
| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998. |
| Description: | x, 196 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3040648 |
| Summary: | German society' 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 concernsÂnamely, women' 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 agesÂMarianne Rosenbaum' Peppermint Peace , Helma Sanders-Brahms' Germany, Pale Mother , Jutta BrÜckner' Hunger Years , Margarethe von Trotta' Marianne and Juliane , and Jeanine Meerapfel' 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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| Physical Description: | x, 196 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes filmography (p. [171]), bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0292746962 0292746970 |
