The mirror as philosophic and political concept -- Images of Jews and Gentiles in contemporary German film -- Interview with Tommaso Speccher -- Some filmic heroines and others in the GDR documentary Women in Ravensbrück (1968) -- Berlin in the perception of young Russian-speaking Jewish migrants -- Representations of mixed relationships in contemporary German film and television -- Unkosher Jewish : Jewish popular culture in Berlin -- Morbid beauty as an aesthetic concept to portray the Jew in German film : interview with Felice Naomi Wonnenberg -- Between guilt and repression : conversion to Judaism after the shoa -- Can't get no satisfaction : the desexualization of the Jewish man in contemporary German film -- Intra-activities of the queer diaspora : Berlin-Kreuzberg and the Jerusalem kings phenomenon -- The long shadow of the holy cross : Jewish-Christian gender-images in Max Färberböck's movie Aimée und Jaguar -- The dead Jew as eternal other : loss and identification in the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin -- Sissy and the muscle-Jew go to the movies : the image of the Jewish man in film after 1945 and its reception in Germany -- Spaces of memory : reflections on social transformation at the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe : interview with Irit Dekel.
Summary:
"The notion of self and other and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept of self and other and its imaginary dichotomy is gaining more and more political impact in a world of resurfacing ideology-ridden conflicts. The essays deal with Jewish reality in contemporary Germany and its reflection in movies from the special point of view of cultural sciences, political sciences, and religious studies. This anthology presents challengingly new insights into topics rarely covered, such as youth culture or humor, and finally discusses the images of Jewish life as realities still to be constructed"--Publisher's website.
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