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Klinkhammer, Lutz and Zimmermann, Clemens (Eds.): Cinema as a Political Media: Germany and Italy Compared, 1945–1950s, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021 (Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe: Pubblicazioni online del DHI Roma. Nuova serie, Volume 5). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.651

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01/21/2021

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Lutz Klinkhammer (Ed.), Clemens Zimmermann (Ed.)

Cinema as a Political Media

Germany and Italy Compared, 1945–1950s

Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe: Pubblicazioni online del DHI Roma. Nuova serie

Sulla base di un approccio comparato e transnazionale, il volume esamina le rispettive interpretazioni del proprio passato in Germania e in Italia nello specchio della produzione cinematografica tra il 1945 e il 1955, nonché la reciproca ricezione dei film. In 12 contributi gli autori internazionali analizzano trama e narrativa di alcuni importanti film, considerando anche il contesto in cui si svolse allora, nei due paesi, il dibattito sugli orrori e traumi del passato nazionalsocialista e fascista.

This volume’s transnational, comparative approach seeks to open up a fresh perspective on self-interpretations of the past in Germany and Italy with regards to film production and the cinematographic relationship between the two countries, from 1945 to 1955. In the 12 chapters, the international authors analyse both plot and narrative in significant single film productions, as well as the contexts in which the horrors and traumas of their Nazi and Fascist pasts were discussed in both countries.

Lutz Klinkhammer è vice direttore dell’Istituto Storico Germanico e insegna all’Università Johannes Gutenberg di Magonza. Il fulcro delle sue ricerche sono la storia italiana dal XIX al XXI secolo, il nazionalsocialismo e la Seconda guerra mondiale e le culture nazionali della memoria dopo il 1945.

Lutz Klinkhammer is Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Rome and teaches at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. His main research interests are Italian History from the 18th to the 21th century, National Socialism and The Second World War, as well as national culture of remembrance since 1945.

Clemens Zimmermann è professore al dipartimento di Storia dell’Università del Saarland. Le sue ricerche riguardano in particolare la storia dei media, la storia sociale e culturale degli spazi urbani e rurali, la storia dell’azione statale e della politica sociale e culturale, la percezione delle nuove tecnologie e media da parte dei singoli individui, dei gruppi sociali e sul piano scientifico.

Clemens Zimmermann is Professor at the Historical Institute of Saarland University. His research focuses on media history, the social and cultural history of urban and agrarian environments, the history of state practice and social and cultural policy, and individual, group-specific and scientific perception of new technologies and media.

 

Media coverage

René Möhrle, in: H-Soz-Kult [11.07.2022]. 

Chapters

Table of Contents
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Front Matter
I-IV
Contents
V-VI
Clemens Zimmermann
Introduction: Cinema as a Political Medium – Germany and Italy Compared from 1945 to the 1950s. The Aims of this Volume
1-18
Claudia Dillmann
Film Policies and Cinema Audiences in Germany
19-34
Ina Merkel
Narrative Patterns in Anti-Fascist American, Soviet and European Films (1940–1950)
35-57
Daniel Jonah Wolpert
Bodies of Evidence, Burdens of Proof. Reason before the Court of Cinema after the Third Reich
59-77
Bernhard Groß
Building Figurations of Contingent and Substantial Communities. Differences between Italian and German Post-war Cinema Aesthetics
79-100
Christian Kuchler
Politics, Moral and Cinema. Catholic Film Work in Post-war Germany
101-113
Lukas Schaefer
European Critical Film Culture. Italian and Western German Film Magazines in an International Context
115-129
Robert S. C. Gordon
Production, Myth and Misprision in Early Holocaust Cinema. “L’ebreo errante” (Goffredo Alessandrini, 1948)
131-149
Maurizio Zinni
“Italians and not Italians”. Fascism and National Identity in Post-war Italian Cinema
151-164
Damiano Garofalo
Images of Germans in Post-war Italian Cinema
165-177
Philip Cooke, Gianluca Fantoni
Where Do We Go from Here? The Moral and Material Reconstruction of Italian Cinema after World War II (1945–1955)
179-194
Lutz Klinkhammer
Popular and Catholic Cinema in Italy, 1944–1954. What Kind of Lessons about the Past Did the “Morally Sane” and Educating Film Communicate to Italian Audiences?
195-223
Index of Names
225-228
Index of Film Titles
229-231

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