| Feminism, Film, Fascism: Women's Auto/Biographical Film in Postwar Germany UNIV OF TEXAS P Edition Contributor(s): Linville, Susan E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0292746970 ISBN-13: 9780292746978 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 97003076 |
| Lexile Measure: 1700 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.09" W x 8.48" (0.71 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - German - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: German society's 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 concerns--namely, women's 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 ages-Marianne Rosenbaum's Peppermint Peace, Helma Sanders-Brahms's Germany, Pale Mother, Jutta Brückner's Hunger Years, Margarethe von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane, and Jeanine Meerapfel's 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. |