The construction of European Holocaust memory
| Titel: | The construction of European Holocaust memory : German and Polish cinema after 1989 / Małgorzata Pakier |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Frankfurt, M. : PL Acad. Research, 2013 |
| Umfang: | 192 S. ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Warsaw studies in Jewish history and memory ; 3 |
| Hochschulschrift: | Zugl.: Florenz, European Univ. Inst., Diss., 2010 |
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| ISBN: | 3631619030 ; 9783631619032 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
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- Acknowledgments
- p. 5
- Chapter I
- Holocaust Film and European Memory
- p. 9
- The Holocaust: Europe's Foundational Myth?
- p. 9
- Holocaust Memory - Beyond Narratives and Images?
- p. 15
- History, Memory and Film
- p. 18
- Chapter II
- An Entangled European History: Holocaust Comedy Europa, Europa (Germany-Poland-France 1990)
- p. 25
- 20 th Century Europe: A Philosophical Tale
- p. 26
- Europe from a Jewish Perspective
- p. 30
- Polish History in Europa, Europa
- p. 36
- The Portrayal of Germans in Europa, Europa
- p. 44
- The Reception of Europa, Europa: Polish Reactions
- p. 50
- Competing for the American Academy Award: German Rejection and Polish Indignation
- p. 53
- Europa, Europa in Germany: Hitlerjunge Salomon
- p. 56
- Conclusions
- p. 62
- Chapter III
- Holocaust Melodrama: Beyond History - or Burdened with the Past? Aimee and Jaguar (Germany, 1998) and Far away from the Window (Poland, 2000)
- p. 65
- The German and Polish Films' Common Theme and Style
- p. 66
- Aimée and Jaguar and Far away from the Window in German and Polish Press Discussion
- p. 68
- The Historical Discourse of Aimée and Jaguar: An Ordinary Woman in the Nazi Era
- p. 75
- The Historical Discourse of Far away from the Window: The Mythical Matka-Polka Confronted with the Holocaust
- p. 82
- The Jewish Character and German-Jewish Relations in Aimee and Jaguar: A Positive Symbiosis?
- p. 90
- Closed in the Past: The Portrayal of the Jewish Character in Far away from the Window
- p. 96
- Conclusions
- p. 101
- Chapter IV
- Collective Portraits of Poles and Germans. The Narrative of "Ordinary People" in Just beyond this Forest (Poland, 1991), Burial of a Potato (Poland, 1990), and Jewboy Levi (Germany, 1999)
- p. 103
- Common Theme and Filmic Style
- p. 104
- Representation of Ordinary Germans in Jewboy Levi
- p. 110
- Ordinary Poles in Just beyond this Forest and Burial of a Potato
- p. 118
- Jewboy Levi, Just beyond this Forest, and Burial of a Potato in the German and Polish Press Discussions
- p. 128
- "Ordinary People" in the German and Polish Historical Discourses
- p. 133
- The Category of "Ordinary People" in the German Debate
- p. 133
- "Ordinary People" in the Polish Historical Discourse
- p. 140
- Conclusions
- p. 147
- Chapter V
- Conclusions
- p. 149
- What Is Remembered? From Grand Events to the Stories of Ordinary People
- p. 150
- Who Remembers? The "Negative" Memory
- p. 154
- How Is the Holocaust Remembered? The Limits of "Europeanization"
- p. 158
- Bibliography
- p. 165
