Construction of European Holocaust Memory : German and Polish Cinema after 1989.
Başlık:
Construction of European Holocaust Memory : German and Polish Cinema after 1989.
Yazar:
Pakier, Malgorzata.
ISBN:
9783653038132
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (194 pages)
Seri:
Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory ; v.3
Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory
İçerik:
Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER I. Holocaust Film and European Memory -- The Holocaust: Europe's Foundational Myth? -- Holocaust Memory - Beyond Narratives and Images? -- History, Memory and Film -- CHAPTER II. An Entangled European History: Holocaust Comedy. Europa, Europa (Germany-Poland-France 1990) -- 20th Century Europe: A Philosophical Tale -- Europe from a Jewish Perspective -- Polish History in Europa, Europa -- The Portrayal of Germans in Europa, Europa -- The Reception of Europa, Europa: Polish Reactions -- Competing for the American Academy Award:German Rejection and Polish Indignation -- Europa, Europa in Germany: Hitlerjunge Salomon -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER III. Holocaust Melodrama: Beyond History- or Burdened with the Past? Aimée and Jaguar(Germany, 1998) and Far away from the Window (Poland, 2000) -- The German and Polish Films' Common Theme and Style -- Aimée and Jaguar and Far away from the Window in German and Polish Press Discussion -- The Historical Discourse of Aimée and Jaguar:An Ordinary Woman in the Nazi Era -- The Historical Discourse of Far away from the Window: The Mythical Matka-Polka Confronted with the Holocaust -- The Jewish Character and German-Jewish Relations in Aimée and Jaguar: A Positive Symbiosis? -- Closed in the Past: The Portrayal of the Jewish Character in Far away from the Window -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER IV. Collective Portraits of Poles and Germans.The Narrative of "Ordinary People"in Just beyond this Forest (Poland, 1991),Burial of a Potato (Poland, 1990),and Jewboy Levi (Germany, 1999) -- Common Theme and Filmic Style -- Representation of Ordinary Germans in Jewboy Levi -- Ordinary Poles in Just beyond this Forest and Burialof a Potato -- Jewboy Levi, Just beyond this Forest, and Burialof a Potato in the German and Polish PressDiscussions.
"Ordinary People" in the German and Polish Historical Discourses -- The Category of "Ordinary People" in the German Debate -- "Ordinary People" in the Polish Historical Discourse -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER V. Conclusions -- What Is Remembered? From Grand Events to the Stories of Ordinary People -- Who Remembers? The "Negative" Memory -- How Is the Holocaust Remembered? The Limits of "Europeanization" -- Bibliography.
Özet:
Is a common European Holocaust memory possible? The author approaches this question by analyzing Polish and German cinema after 1989, and the public debates on the past that have surrounded the filmic narratives. Of all media, cinema has exerted the broadest impact in the formation of collective memory regarding the Holocaust. Despite the distance in time, and especially since the fall of communism, this traumatic chapter in European history has come into ever sharper focus. Film makers have refracted evolving public awareness and in turn projected the dramas and images that inculcate mass opinion. This work examines these dynamic trends with regard to selected Polish and German feature films. The author shows how cinema opened hitherto taboo aspects to discussion. She reveals both a deep divide between the two countries, as well as significant similar trends in the memory of events.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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