Gendered memories : transgressions in German and Israeli film and theatre / Vera Apfelthaler and Julia B. Köhne (eds.).

International conference proceedings.

"The texts for "Gendered Memories. Transgressions in German and Israeli Film and Theatre" were written subsequent to the lectures and discussions at the German-Israeli Minerva School "How to Gender Momory. Media and Remembrance in Israel and Germany," ... This international and trans-disciplinary PhD and post-doc conference took place at the Center for German Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Isreal, in May 2005"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : memory, media, gender, and transgressions in/via film and theater / Vera Apfelthaler, Julia B. Köhne -- Can women's traumas return as film? : Passenger (1961-3) and Witness out of hell (1965-7) / Lihi Nagler -- Remembering as forgetting in visual culture : the documentary shades of gender in Shoah fiction / Frank Stern -- Unheroic heroes : re-viewing Roman Polanski's The pianist (2002) in Germany and Israel / Kobi Kabalek -- The woman and the past : on Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and its meaning for film / Karin Stögner -- Witnessing, credibility, and female perpetrators : eyewitnesses in television documentaries about national socialism / Judith Keilbach -- Watching the documentation Children of the Third Reich (1993) : an encounter with descendants of Holocaust survivors and children of perpetrators / Iris Wachsmuth -- Mein Leben Teil 2 = My life part 2 (2003) : reflections about recent autobiographical documentaries / Hilde W. Hoffmann -- Between Virgo and virago : spatial perception and gender politics in Austrian film production, 1914-1918 / Thomas Ballhausen -- Remaking is regendernig : notions of loyalty in the Nibelungen films by Fritz Lang, Harald Reinl, and Uli Edel / Tilo Renz -- Holocaust representations in Israeli cinema : the same war again and again / Jeannine Levana Frenk -- What do we do with the past (and who does it)? : a gendered reading of Lea Goldberg's play Ba'alat ha'Armon (1954) / Talila Kosh -- Exile, nostalgia, and the Unheimlich : the Gesher Theater / Freddie Rokem -- The castrated villain, still irresistible : comments on the German condition in Heiner Müller's The reisistible rise of Arturo Ui (1995) / Vera Apfelthaler -- Unifications, reconfigurations, and gender in Smadar Yaaron's performance Wishuponastar : a fatal love story (2005) / Julia B. Köhne.