Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Tender Gaze 1
5. 1: Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema 17
6. 2: The Tender Gaze, Embodied Politics, and Perspective-Taking in German Postdramatic Theater 40
7. 3: Face to Face: Race, Gender, and the Gaze in Mo Asumang’s Die Arier 60
8. 4: “Risse, hinter denen man einen Kern entdeckt, der so ähnlich ist wie die Herzen von uns allen”: The Tender Gaze in Umut Dağ’s Risse im Beton 76
9. 5: Looking through the Eyes of Empathy: Encouraging a Culture of Caring and Compassion in Doris Dörrie’s Keiner liebt mich 90
10. 6: The Tender and Transgressive Beast Within: Escape Narratives in Films by Krebitz, Stuber, and Speckenbach 107
11. 7: Looking at Looking in Margarethe von Trotta’s Das Versprechen 125
12. 8: A Queer Phenomenology of Gender in Maren Ade’s Alle Anderen and Toni Erdmann 143
13. 9: Rilke’s “Schauen” 159
14. 10: Pity Stares or Tender Gaze? Seeing Disability in Nineteenth-Century Austrian and German Literature 177
15. 11: The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck’s “Liebeszauber” 194
16. 12: Mothering, Animals, and the Surveillance State in the Anthropocene: An Ecofeminist Reading of Birgit Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund 206
17. Notes on the Contributors 221
18. Index 225