East German Film and the Holocaust (eBook)

Elizabeth Ward (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
264 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-561-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Lgner - 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Film Europa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1977 academy awards • antifascist • antifascist resistance • Antisemitic • Archival Research • Berlin • bilder des zeugen • Cinema • communist • Crime • east german film and the holocaust • East Germany • engaging • Europe • European History • Film Studies • GDR • gdr filmmakers • Germany • Good and evil • government and governing • Holocaust • jakob der lugner • Jewish • Jewish suffering • jewish victimhood • marginalizing discussions • national socialist oppression • Nazi persecution • Page Turner • Realistic • socialist oppression • Third Reich
• ISBN-10: 1-80539-561-0 / 1805395610
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80539-561-4 / 9781805395614