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- Title
Screening the Past through the Lens of Humour: Representations of the Communist Past in Contemporary German Cinema.
- Authors
GYÖNGY, Antonela
- Abstract
This article provides an insight into coming to terms with the communist past in contemporary German cinema by analysing three feature films released in different periods of the post-Wall era. It argues about various uses of humorous representations of the past in the social comedies Stilles Land [Silent Country, Andreas Dresen, 1992], Good Bye, Lenin! [Wolfgang Becker, 2003], and Boxhagener Platz [Boxhagen Place, Matti Geschonneck, 2010], and the implications they have in constructing collective memory. These representations are characteristic phenomena in Germany's dealing with the communist past, which tend to re-interpret topoi such as victims and perpetrators and challenge stereotyped concepts of the memory discourse such as Ostalgie, Gegen-Ostalgie or Westalgie.
- Subjects
GERMANY (East); WIT &; humor; COMMUNISM; EAST German history; MOTION pictures; SOPHISTICATED comedy films; STILLES Land (Film); GOOD Bye, Lenin! (Film); BOXHAGENER Platz (Film)
- Publication
Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series Historica, 2014, Vol 11, p181
- ISSN
1584-3165
- Publication type
Article