Screening War

Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.

Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.

Introduction: German Suffering? - Paul Cooke and Marc SilbermanArmchair Warriors: Heroic Postures in the West German War Film - Jennifer M. KapczynskiGerman Martyrs: Images of Christianity and Resistance to National Socialism in German Cinema - David ClarkeThe Rhetoric of Victim Narratives in West German Films of the 1950s - Manuel KoeppenSissi the Terrible: Melodrama, Victimhood, and Imperial Nostalgia in the Sissi Trilogy - Erica CarterPolitical Affects: Antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf - Sabine HakeShadowlands: The Memory of the Ostgebiete in Contemporary German Film and Television - Tim BergfelderLinks and Chains: Trauma between the Generations in the Heimat Mode - Rachel PalfreymanResistance of the Heart: Female Suffering and Victimhood in DEFA's Antifascist Films - Daniela BerghahnSuffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA - Brad PragerEberhard Fechner's History of Suffering: TV Talk, Temporal Distance, Spatial Displacement - John DavidsonThe Politics of Feeling: Alexander Kluge on War, Film, and Emotion - Johannes von MoltkePost-unification German-Jewish Relations and the Discourse of Victimhood in Dani Levy's Films - Sean Allan