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050 00 PN1993.5.G33 |bW37 2021
100 1  Ward, Elizabeth |c(Lecturer), |eauthor.
245 10 East German film and the Holocaust / |cElizabeth Ward.
264  1 New York : |bBerghahn Books, |c2021.
264  4  |c©2021
300    xiii, 245 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm.
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
336    still image |bsti |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
490 1  Film Europa : German cinema in an international context ; |vVolume 22
500    "Berghahn on film" -- front cover.
504    Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
505 00  |g(from table of contents) |gIntroduction -- |tPicking up the pieces : Kurt Maetzig's "Ehe im Schatten" -- |tGerman Democratic Republic's ambassador of good will : Konrad Wolf's "Sterne" -- |tReframing victimhood : Konrad Wolf's "Professor Mamlock" -- |tCrimes of the past and politics of the present : Wolfgang Luderer's "Lebende Ware" -- |t'In Babelsberg, nothing new' : Gottfried Kolditz's "Das Tal der sieben Monde" -- |tNew encounters on well-worn paths : Kurt Jung-Alsen's "Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann" -- |tReturning to the past : Frank Beyer's "Jakob der Lügner" -- |tShifting identities : Michael Kann's "Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn" -- |tCalendar-based shame? : Siegfried Kühn's "Die Schauspielerin" -- |gConclusion.
520    "East Germany's ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany's name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted "Jakob der Lügner" - a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political"-- |cProvided by publisher on back cover.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Motion pictures |zGermany (East) |xHistory.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
650  7 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958927
650  7 Motion pictures. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01027285
651  7 Germany (East) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210274
655  7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08  |iOnline version:Ward, Elizabeth (Lecturer) |tEast German film and the Holocaust |dNew York : Berghahn, 2020 |z9781789207484 |w(DLC)  2020015863
830  0 Film Europa ; |vv. 22.
852 0   |bscstacks |hPN1993.5.G33 |iW37 2021