Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-285) and indexes
Introduction: German suffering? / Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman -- Hidden screens: soldiers, martyrs, innocent German victims. Armchair warriors: heroic postures in the West German war film / Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- German martyrs: images of Christianity and resistance to national socialism in German cinema / David Clarke -- The rhetoric of victim narratives in West German films of the 1950s / Manuel Köppen -- Projection screens: disavowing loss, transforming antifascism, contesting memories. Sissi the terrible: melodrama, victimhood, and imperial nostalgia in the Sissi trilogy / Erica Carter -- Political affects: antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf / Sabine Hake -- Shadowlands: the memory of the Ostgebiete in contemporary German film and television / Tim Bergfelder -- Display screens: generational traumas, untimely passions, open wounds. Links and chains: trauma between the generations in the Heimat mode / Rachel Palfreyman -- Resistance of the heart: female suffering and victimhood in DEFA's antifascist films / Daniela Berghahn -- Suffering and sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA / Brad Prager -- Split screens: ambiguous authorities, decentered emotions, performed identities. Eberhard Fechner's history of suffering: TV talk, temporal distance, spatial displacement / John E. Davidson -- The politics of feeling: Alexander Kluge on war, film, and emotion / Johannes von Moltke -- Post-unification German-Jewish relations and the discourse of victimhood in Dani Levy's films / Seán Allan
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Germans in motion pictures
Psychic trauma in motion pictures
Suffering in motion pictures
War films-- Germany-- History-- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945-- Motion pictures and the war