Contents

pp v-vi

Preface and Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction: German Suffering?

pp 1-14

I - Hidden Screens: Soldiers, Martyrs, Innocent German Victims

pp 15-16

1 - Armchair Warriors: Heroic Postures in the West German War Film

pp 17-35

2 - German Martyrs: Images of Christianity and Resistance to National Socialism in German Cinema

pp 36-55

3 - The Rhetoric of Victim Narratives in West German Films of the 1950s

pp 56-78

II - Projection Screens: Disavowing Loss, Transforming Antifascism, Contesting Memories

pp 79-80

4 - Sissi the Terrible: Melodrama, Victimhood, and Imperial Nostalgia in the Sissi Trilogy

pp 81-101

5 - Political Affects: Antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf

pp 102-122

6 - Shadowlands: The Memory of the Ostgebiete in Contemporary German Film and Television

pp 123-142

III - Display Screens: Generational Traumas, Untimely Passions, Open Wounds

pp 143-144

7 - Links and Chains: Trauma between the Generations in the Heimat Mode

pp 145-164

8 - Resistance of the Heart: Female Suffering and Victimhood in DEFA’s Antifascist Films

pp 165-186

9 - Suffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff’s Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel’s NaPolA

pp 187-206

IV - Split Screens: Ambiguous Authorities, Decentered Emotions, Performed Identities

pp 207-208

10 - Eberhard Fechner’s History of Suffering: TV Talk, Temporal Distance, Spatial Displacement

pp 209-229

11 - The Politics of Feeling: Alexander Kluge on War, Film, and Emotion

pp 230-250

12 - Post-unification German-Jewish Relations and the Discourse of Victimhood in Dani Levy’s Films

pp 251-266

Works Cited

pp 267-286

Notes on the Contributors

pp 287-292

Index of Film Titles

pp 293-296

Index of Names and Subjects

pp 297-304