Absence as Presence, Presence as Parapraxis: On Some Problems of Representing "Jews" in the New German Cinema
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Absence as PresenceAnyone looking for traces of the Holocaust in postwar West German films of the 1950s and 1960s, is likely to be disappointed: such, at any rate, is the common assumption. 2 But the same seems no less true of the so-called "New German Cinema" of the 1970s: While in the films of some of the well-known names-Edgar Reitz,
DOI: 10.1353/frm.0.0001
Author: Thomas Elsaesser
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2095150485