Film Europa #22: East German Film and the Holocaust

Film Europa #22: East German Film and the Holocaust
Elizabeth Ward
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16 Jun 2020 UK
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9781789207477
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Throughout its existence, East Germany's ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for crimes committed on its territory between 1933 and 1945, and to the extent that it addressed the Nazi era at all, it was to cast communist antifascists as both the victims of and victors over fascist oppression. Yet it was the internationally successful Jacob the Liar-which has a Jewish protagonist and no communist characters at all-that the GDR's Ministry of Culture submitted for the 1976 Academy Awards, becoming the only East German movie to ever be nominated. By combining close analyses of five key films with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of cinema depicting antisemitism in a country whose official history emphasized political persecution over racial victimhood.

#20: Screening Art: Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema
#21: Cinema of Collaboration: DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
#22: East German Film and the Holocaust
ision: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

"Offering new historical information coupled with refined close readings and an impressive amount of archival work, East German Film and the Holocaust is an informative, insightful and fascinating book. It will be of interest to film scholars and historians alike." Brad Prager, University of Missouri
Elizabeth Ward is a researcher in East German cinema and a lecturer in German Studies at the University of Hull, where she teaches German, film studies and history. She holds degrees from the University of Leeds and the University of Cambridge.
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ISBN-13: 9781789207477
Published: 16 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 264

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