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German Cinema - Terror and Trauma - Cultural Memory Since 1945 (Paperback, New)
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German Cinema - Terror and Trauma - Cultural Memory Since 1945 (Paperback, New)
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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. Its most emphatically "absent presence" might turn
out to be the compulsive afterlife of the Red Army Faction, whose
acts of terror in the 1970s were a response to-as well as a
reminder of-Nazism's hold on the national imaginary. Since the end
of the Cold War and 9/11, the terms of the debate around terror and
trauma have shifted also in Germany, where generational memory now
distributes the roles of historical agency and accountability
differently. Against the background of universalized victimhood, a
cinema of commemoration has, if anything, confirmed the violence
that the past continues to exert on the present, in the form of
missed encounters, retroactive incidents, unintended slippages and
uncanny parallels, which Elsaesser-reviving the full meaning of
Freud's Fehlleistung-calls the parapractic performativity of
cultural memory.
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