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- Title
VIENNESE FANTASIES, AUSTRIAN HISTORIES: SPACE, FANTASY AND FASCISM IN INGEBORG BACHMANN'S MALINA AND LILIANA CAVANI'S THE NIGHT PORTER.
- Authors
HILLS, ALEXANDRA
- Abstract
This article investigates the psychological and topographical traces of the traumatic Fascist past through a comparative analysis of Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina (1971) and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). An assessment of the role of low-brow culture on canon formation of Holocaust fiction and film will complement an evaluation of the films' depiction of the displacement of anxieties relating to the Nazi past and the World War II onto the realms of sexuality, gender and architecture. An analysis of the description and role of Vienna in both works will determine the city's role as an interface between public and private concerns relating to a complex Austrian past marked by Imperial and Fascist histories. This article brings two unique voices together for the first time in order to evaluate the transposition of an ineffable historical moment into a visual vocabulary that highlights the importance of historical, traumatic memory and its repercussion on gender and subjectivity, visual and fictional representation, as well as cultural manifestations of history.
- Subjects
HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, in motion pictures; TRAGEDY (Trauma); FASCISM in motion pictures
- Publication
Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 2015, Vol 81, p185
- ISSN
0927-5754
- Publication type
Article