Film and memory in East Germany

Abstract

Introduction: Cinematic Specters of History as MemoryPart I Vanishing Returnees: War Trauma, Antifascism, and Crisis of Masculinity (1940s)1. Flashbacks and Psyche - The Murderers Are among Us 2. Grieving Dead Soldiers - Somewhere in Berlin 3. Psychotic Breaks and Conjugal Rubble - Wozzeck 4. Suicidal Males and Reconstruction - Our Daily BreadPart II Fantasmatic Fullness: Strained Female Subjectivity and Socialist Dreams (1950s)5. Silent Mothers: Air War as Intimate Memory - Rotations 6. Ghostly Returns - Story of a Young Couple and Destinies of Women 7. Stalin's Daughters on the Verge - Story of a Young Couple and Destinies of Women 8. Missing Smile: Psychic Paralysis and Production - Sun SeekersPart III. Germany, Year Zero: Recasting the Past in the Present (1960s) 9. Postmelancholic Memory Projections - I was Nineteen 10. Modern Loss and Mourning Plays - Born in '45Epilogue: Vacant History, Empty Screens - Postcommunist Films of the 1990s

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