Filming Familial Secrets
Approaching and Avoiding Legacies of Nazi Perpetration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4860333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanne Luhmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-134 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0094033x-2010-025 |
| OpenAlex | W1976906488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Literary and cinematic representations of private and familial histories of Nazi perpetration, collaboration, and support have proliferated since reunification. Three recent German documentary films each turn the lens on the filmmaker and his family in an effort to grapple publicly with long-silenced familial legacies. These attempts to work through, or at least make readable, the affective afterlife of silenced histories of guilt and shame are evidence of the limits of any strategy for mastering the affective inheritance that this past represents
Afterlife · Archaeology · Art · Criminology · German · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Literature · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Nexus (standard) · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Sociology · Engineering · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2020 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |