{"product_id":"9780292778139","title":"Feminism, Film, Fascism: Women's Auto\/biographical Film in Postwar Germany","description":"German society's inability and\/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to Mourn. In this pathfinding study, Susan Linville challenges the accepted wisdom of these books by focusing on a cultural realm in which mourning for the Nazi past and opposing the patriarchal and authoritarian nature of postwar German culture are central concerns--namely, women's feminist auto\/biographical films of the 1970s and 1980s.   After a broad survey of feminist theory, Linville analyzes five important films that reflect back on the Third Reich through the experiences of women of different ages-Marianne Rosenbaum's Peppermint Peace, Helma Sanders-Brahms's Germany, Pale Mother, Jutta Brückner's Hunger Years, Margarethe von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane, and Jeanine Meerapfel's Malou. By juxtaposing these films with the accepted theories on German culture, Linville offers a fresh appraisal not only of the films' importance but especially of their challenge to misogynist interpretations of the German failure to grieve for the horrors of its Nazi past.","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103193186544,"sku":"9780292778139","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780292778139_p0.jpg?v=1763683134","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780292778139","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}