Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: German suffering? / Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman
  • Hidden screens: soldiers, martyrs, innocent German victims. Armchair warriors: heroic postures in the West German war film / Jennifer M. Kapczynski
  • German martyrs: images of Christianity and resistance to national socialism in German cinema / David Clarke
  • The rhetoric of victim narratives in West German films of the 1950s / Manuel Köppen
  • Projection screens: disavowing loss, transforming antifascism, contesting memories. Sissi the terrible: melodrama, victimhood, and imperial nostalgia in the Sissi trilogy / Erica Carter
  • Political affects: antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf / Sabine Hake
  • Shadowlands: the memory of the Ostgebiete in contemporary German film and television / Tim Bergfelder
  • Display screens: generational traumas, untimely passions, open wounds. Links and chains: trauma between the generations in the Heimat mode / Rachel Palfreyman
  • Resistance of the heart: female suffering and victimhood in DEFA's antifascist films / Daniela Berghahn
  • Suffering and sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA / Brad Prager
  • Split screens: ambiguous authorities, decentered emotions, performed identities. Eberhard Fechner's history of suffering: TV talk, temporal distance, spatial displacement / John E. Davidson
  • The politics of feeling: Alexander Kluge on war, film, and emotion / Johannes von Moltke
  • Post-unification German-Jewish relations and the discourse of victimhood in Dani Levy's films / Seán Allan.