How Long to Read German Cinema - Terror and Trauma

How Long Does it Take to Read German Cinema - Terror and Trauma?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read German Cinema - Terror and Trauma by Thomas Elsaesser

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Description

In German Cinema – Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory today. Elsaesser argues that Germany's attempts at "mastering the past" can be seen as both a failure and an achievement, making it appropriate to speak of an ongoing 'guilt management' that includes not only Germany, but Europe as a whole. In a series of case studies, which consider the work of Konrad Wolf, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herbert Achterbusch and Harun Farocki, as well as films made in the new century, Elsaesser tracks the different ways the Holocaust is present in German cinema from the 1950s onwards, even when it is absent, or referenced in oblique and hyperbolic ways. Its most emphatically "absent presence" might turn out to be the compulsive afterlife of the Red Army Faction, whose acts of terror in the 1970s were a response to—as well as a reminder of—Nazism’s hold on the national imaginary. Since the end of the Cold War and 9/11, the terms of the debate around terror and trauma have shifted also in Germany, where generational memory now distributes the roles of historical agency and accountability differently. Against the background of universalized victimhood, a cinema of commemoration has, if anything, confirmed the violence that the past continues to exert on the present, in the form of missed encounters, retroactive incidents, unintended slippages and uncanny parallels, which Elsaesser—reviving the full meaning of Freud’s Fehlleistung—calls the parapractic performativity of cultural memory.

How long is German Cinema - Terror and Trauma?

German Cinema - Terror and Trauma by Thomas Elsaesser is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read German Cinema - Terror and Trauma Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read German Cinema - Terror and Trauma aloud.

What Reading Level is German Cinema - Terror and Trauma?

German Cinema - Terror and Trauma is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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