Abstract
Screening War offers a timely and important contribution to the discussion of postwar and contemporary German visual culture, the rewriting of postwar German history, and the concept of memory at the point where empathy and identification intersect with visual culture. These concise, in-depth and innovative essays work against the grain of already articulated or predictable responses to the recent outpouring of German film and television telling stories of German wartime suffering. The book's origin in a long-term collaborative transatlantic project led by Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman has produced a series of individual essays that complement one another well. The contributions address material ranging from popular mainstream and arthouse films to television and political essay films, covering the postwar periods (including the former GDR and FRG). The editors open their introduction with a list of films and books that advance the current popular discourse of remembering German suffering during World War II. They also provide a chronological account of German postwar history organized along the axis of memory politics, which frames the scholarly project at hand but also relies on and reflects the essays' findings.
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