Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Seeing Through he "Postwar" Years 1
5. 1 Kinder, Kirche, Kino: The Optical Politics of Marianne Rosenbaum's Peppermint Peace 21
6. 2 The mother-daughter plot in history: Helma Sander-Brahm's Germany, pale mother 41
7. 3 Self-consuming Images: The Idenity Politics of Jutta Brückner;s Hunger Years 64
8. 4 Rertieving History: Margarethe von Tro 84
9. 5 The Autoethnographic aesthetic of Jeanine Meerapfel's Malou 109
10. Epilogue 129
11. Notes 141
12. Filmography 171
13. Bibliography 173
14. Index 189