This title takes a look at fascist constructions of health and illness. It argues that the metaphor of a healthy 'national body', propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations, continued to shape post-1945 discussions about the states of national culture.
This title takes a look at fascist constructions of health and illness. It argues that the metaphor of a healthy 'national body', propagated by the Na...
The German Patient takes an original look at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the idea of a healthy "national body"---propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations---continued to shape post-1945 discussions about the state of national culture. Through an examination of literature, film, and popular media of the era, Jennifer M. Kapczynski demonstrates the ways in which postwar German thinkers inverted the illness metaphor, portraying fascism as a national malady and the nation as a body struggling to...
The German Patient takes an original look at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the idea of a healthy "national body"...
This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the Kintopp to contemporary productions like The Lives of Others. Each of the more than eighty essays takes a key date as its starting point and explores its significance for German film history, pursuing its relationship with its social, political, and aesthetic moment. While the essays offer ample temporal and topical spread, this book emphasizes the juxtaposition of famous and unknown stories, granting attention to a wide range of cinematic...
This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the K...
In studies of Holocaust representation and memory, scholars of literature and culture traditionally have focused on particular national contexts. At the same time, recent work has brought the Holocaust into the arena of the transnational, leading to a crossroads between localized and global understandings of Holocaust memory. Further complicating the issue are generational shifts that occur with the passage of time, and which render memory and representations of the Holocaust ever more mediated, commodified, and departicularized. Nowhere is the inquiry into Holocaust memory more fraught or...
In studies of Holocaust representation and memory, scholars of literature and culture traditionally have focused on particular national contexts. At t...