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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: German Suffering? 1
5. I. Hidden Screens: Soldiers, Martyrs, Innocent German Victims
6. 1: Armchair Warriors: Heroic Postures in the West German War Film 17
7. 2: German Martyrs: Images of Christianity and Resistance to National Socialism in German Cinema 36
8. 3: The Rhetoric of Victim Narratives in West German Films of the 1950s 56
9. II. Projection Screens: Disavowing Loss, Transforming Antifascism, Contesting Memories
10. 4: Sissi the Terrible: Melodrama, Victimhood, and Imperial Nostalgia in the Sissi Trilogy 81
11. 5: Political Affects: Antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf 102
12. 6: Shadowlands: The Memory of the Ostgebiete in Contemporary German Film and Television 123
13. III. Display Screens: Generational Traumas, Untimely Passions, Open Wounds
14. 7: Links and Chains: Trauma between the Generations in the Heimat Mode 145
15. 8: Resistance of the Heart: Female Suffering and Victimhood in DEFA’s Antifascist Films 165
16. 9: Suffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff’s Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel’s NaPolA 187
17. IV. Split Screens: Ambiguous Authorities, Decentered Emotions, Performed Identities
18. 10: Eberhard Fechner’s History of Suffering: TV Talk, Temporal Distance, Spatial Displacement 209
19. 11: The Politics of Feeling: Alexander Kluge on War, Film, and Emotion 230
20. 12: Post-unification German-Jewish Relations and the Discourse of Victimhood in Dani Levy’s Films 251
21. Works Cited 267
22. Contributors 287
23. Index of Film Titles 293
24. Index of Names and Subjects 297