Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory by Professor Chri

Description: Screening the Red Army Faction by Professor Christina Gerhardt, Christina Gerhardt Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media, film and art, locating an analysis of these texts in the historical and political context of unfolding events. In this way, the book contributes both a new history and a new cultural history of post-fascist era West Germany that grapples with the fledgling republics most pivotal debates about the nature of democracy and authority; about violence, its motivations and regulation; and about its cultural afterlife. Looking back at the history of representations of the RAF in various media, this book considers how our understanding of the Cold War era, of the long sixties and of the RAF is created and re-created through cultural texts. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor of German at University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Table of Contents 1. Looking Back: The Political and Historical Context, 1945-19702. Print Media and Social Movements in West Germany, 1967-19723. The RAF, Surveillance and the German Autumn in Cinema, 1966-19784. Diverging Trajectories: The RAF and Political Alternatives in New German Cinema, 1972-19825. Terrorism and the Cold War: The RAF and East Germanys The Ministry of State Security, 1982-19906. Terrorism and Memory: Gerhard Richters October 18, 1977 and the Kunst-Werke Exhibit Myth of the RAF BibliographyFilmographyIndex Review Gerhardts well-researched and well-written book is a good antidote to more myopic accounts of the RAF and fulfills its promise of presenting a solid basis for a more responsible (and hopefully also, in the best sense, irresponsible) examination of its legacy. * Cineaste *The books detailed examination of German cultural politics from the mid-1950s through the 1970s is a significant contribution. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Gerhardts Screening the Red Army Faction ... gives readers the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the radical period of the 1960s and 70s through the medium of film. * New Prairie Press *This eminently readable and beautifully researched book is essential reading for anyone interested in the German postwar period ... an indispensable resource and guide to the complex currents that have shaped postwar Germany. * Jump Cut *Gerhardts book represents an extremely detailed examination of the technique, language, character arcs, and atmosphere in the films discussed … These discussions are in turn couched in thick historical context, ... Gerhardts negotiation of a path through and between film and political history offers a valuable perspective from which to reassess the terrorism of West Germanys long seventies and its echoes. * The Sixties *This deeply researched, well-argued book illuminates a previous blind spot for many scholars of German cultural history as well as for film, media, and art history scholars interested in global political film and art ... Screening the Red Army Faction provides the connective tissue and necessary context to demonstrate the vital complexities of the long 1960s and 1970s and their continued global importance. * Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture *Christina Gerhardts Screening the Red Army Faction is a rich, dense, and highly original contribution on German cinema in particular and German memory studies in general. * Canadian Journal of Film Studies *A well-researched book that connects the history of the RAF to its depiction in a range of visual and audiovisual materials. Gerhardt argues that our cultural memory of the RAF needs to properly contextualize these events within other contemporaneous and international political movements, including anti-imperialism, anticolonialism, labor movements, and feminist movements. * Feminist German Studies *Walking a fine line between global history, social history, and cultural studies, the mission of Screening the Red Army Faction is to explore the relationship between historical and cultural memory beyond the fixed narratives and frameworks ... Gerhardt traces the connections between domestic concerns and international struggles while also situating the films within the layered and sometimes asynchronous time of film history. * Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature *Gerhardt appropriately accentuates the impact of migrants and international students on the 1960s student movement as well as the RAFs so-called armed struggle. * Monatshefte *Non-German-speaking readers, who are her [Gerhardts] target audience, will come away with new information. * German Studies Review *This informative and well-documented study of the changing representations of the Red Army Faction is a welcome model for how to go about de-provincializing our understanding of the post-war German experience more generally. * Kristin Ross, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, New York University, USA *Based on rigorous primary research and the broadest analysis of art and film depicting the Red Army Faction to date, Christina Gerhardts book fills a major gap in the study of cultural memory in postwar Germany. Most impressively, the book avoids both reductive caricatures and romantic celebrations of the RAF, instead grounding their actions and legacy in a broad international and historical context. * Michael Shane Boyle, Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Screening the Red Army Faction is a well-researched book that connects the history of the RAF to its depiction in a range of visual and audiovisual materials. Gerhardt argues that our cultural memory of the RAF needs to properly contextualize these events within other contemporaneous and international political movements, including anti- imperialism, anticolonialism, labor movements, and feminist movements. * Feminist German Studies *Screening the Red Army Faction provides a solid engagement with 1970s print media and selected reflections on the RAF, mostly in New German Cinema. Gerhardts monograph is a particularly apt introduction to readers ready to dig deeper into the 1960s and 1970s as marked by postcolonial wars, civil right movements, and violent responses to the failure of liberal democracies in the twentieth century. * Central European History *Christina Gerhardt presents a detailed study of the cultural and political events of the 1960s and the 1970s in West Germany in relation to the labour and student movements, focusing on the RAFs activities and on films depicting the processes of cultural memory ... Screening the Red Army Faction is a rich, dense, and highly original contribution on German cinema in particular and German memory studies in general. * Canadian Journal of Film Studies *Gerhardt never romanticises the RAF but her study of its cultural memory will help ensure that what happened in Germany in the 1970s remains worth talking about. * The Prisma * Promotional Analyzes the filmic, literary and artistic depictions of the RAF, revealing both the history of the group and the cultural memory of it. Review Quote Walking a fine line between global history, social history, and cultural studies, the mission of Screening the Red Army Faction is to explore the relationship between historical and cultural memory beyond the fixed narratives and frameworks ... Gerhardt traces the connections between domestic concerns and international struggles while also situating the films within the layered and sometimes asynchronous time of film history. Promotional "Headline" Analyzes the filmic, literary and artistic depictions of the RAF, revealing both the history of the group and the cultural memory of it. Feature Coincides with the 50-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 1968 Details ISBN1501361635 Pages 320 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1501361635 ISBN-13 9781501361630 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-01-23 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA Subtitle Historical and Cultural Memory Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 791.43 Illustrations 15 bw illus Short Title Screening the Red Army Faction Author Christina Gerhardt UK Release Date 2020-01-23 NZ Release Date 2020-01-23 US Release Date 2020-01-23 Translator Sylvia Li-chun Lin Edited by Claire Webster Birth 1952 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2020-01-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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