Rubble, Ruins and Romanticism
Visual Style, Narration and Identity in German Post-War Cinema
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Beschreibung
»Good Germans« during »bad times«? This study shows that there are also rubble films that provoke a »critical discussion« on German national identity.
Traditional criticism on German post-war cinema tends to define rubble films as simplistic texts of low artistic quality which serve to reaffirm the spectator's image of him or herself as »a good German« during »bad times«. Yet this study asserts that some rubble films are actually informed by a type of visual and narrative Romantic discourse which aims at provoking a »critical discussion« on German national identity and its reconstruction in the aftermath of the Third Reich. Considering the lack of previous analyses with regard to the key aspects of Romantic visual style, narration and literary motifs in rubble films, this study points to a major gap in research.
Autor*in
Martina Möller
Martina Möller (PhD) works as a DAAD lecturer at the German Department at the Université Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. Her research interests include German cinema, film theory and intercultural literature.
Themen in »Rubble, Ruins and Romanticism«
German Cinema German Cinema Rubble Films Rubble Films Romantic Discourse Romantic Discourse Ruins Ruins Aesthetics of Opposition Aesthetics of Opposition Film Film Memory Culture Memory Culture German History
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Reviewed in:www.hhprinzler.de, 13.12.2013, Hans Helmut PrinzlerGERMANISTIK, 55/3-4 (2014)
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»Moeller liefert einen wichtigen und produktiven Beitrag zur weiteren Ausdifferenzierung einer spezifisch filmischen Krisenästhetik. Ihre Studie macht deutlich, dass sowohl die neoformalistische Filmanalyse als auch der Rückbezug auf Motive der Romantik Potenzial für die weitere Untersuchung anderer Krisenästhetiken bereithalten.«
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