Gendered memories :
transgressions in German and Israeli film and theatre /
Vera Apfelthaler and Julia B. Köhne (eds.).
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Wien : Turia + Kant, 2007.
- Summary
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The collection of articles deals with a crucial, yet under-represented aspect within this field, the question of gender: How is memory gendered? How are media gendered? Do media gender memory? Further questions the book addresses are: Who is supposed to remember how? How are the notions of female and male memorizing depicted in Israeli and German film and theater? How is the gendered body used as a dramatic means? Which impact does the construction of memory in fiction have on the cultural memory of both societies and vice versa? Examining a variety of memory subjects and their changing modes, ranging from early Zionist films to contemporary Hollywood Productions, from TV documentaries to autobiographical experiments, from mainstream theater to avant-garde performance, the book gives an insight into the significance, complexities, and ambiguities of commemoration politics. And it argues for the necessity of viewing transgression as a cultural practice, be it on the level of the media themselves or on the level of critique.
- Note
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"The texts for "Gendered Memories. Transgressions in German and Israeli Film and Theatre" were written subsequent to the lectures and discussions at the German-Israeli Minerva School "How to Gender Momory. Media and Remembrance in Israel and Germany," ... This international and trans-disciplinary PhD and post-doc conference took place at the Center for German Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Isreal, in May 2005"--T.p. verso.
Essays based on international conference proceedings.
- Physical Description
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266 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
- ISBN
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3851324854 (pbk.)
9783851324853 (pbk.)
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