In German Cinema–Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the
meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a …

During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and
starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing economy, food became intimately …

How has the German image of the Nazi past changed since the reunification of East and
West Germany? And what role have cinema and television played in this process? This …

Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the
twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred …

The Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence during
World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How …

This paper explores how the German TV production Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (2013)
characterizes the 'war generation'with regard to its role in Nazi crimes and as perpetrators …

This book is a first attempt to present the overall development of Germanlanguage literature
on film and to shed light not only on its role within cinema history, but also on the different …

When the ZDF miniseries Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter aired in March 2013, promoters and
critics heralded it as the German television event of the year. Beginning in 1941, before the …

The article begins from a comparison of German Trümmerfilme (“rubble films”) that came to
define the genre and contemporaneous Austrian films also representing post–World War II …

With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films
about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look …