“Morbid Beauty” as an Aesthetic Concept to Portray “the Jew” in German Film

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Cusanus, Nietzsche, and Lacan on Reflection 5
5. Alterophilia or Appropriating the Other 17
6. A Passage to Modernity – The “Iconic Turn” and “Jewish Reality” 37
7. Some Filmic Heroines and ‘Others’ in the GDR Documentary Women in Ravensbrück (1968) 51
8. A City of Mind 71
9. Between Self and Other 85
10. “Unkosher Jewish” – Jewish Popular Culture in Berlin 99
11. “Morbid Beauty” as an Aesthetic Concept to Portray “the Jew” in German Film 111
12. Between Guilt and Repression – Conversion to Judaism after the Shoa 123
13. Can’t Get No Satisfaction 139
14. Intra-Activities of the Queer Diaspora 157
15. The Long Shadow of the Holy Cross 171
16. The Dead Jew as Eternal Other 189
17. Sissy and the Muscle-Jew Go to the Movies 205
18. Spaces of Memory – Reflections on Social Transformation at the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe 231
19. Authors 239
20. Index of Persons 241