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- Title
The Hidden Face of Narcissus: Suicide as Poetic Speech in Margarethe von Trotta's Early Films.
- Authors
Kuttenberg, Eva
- Abstract
Examines female suicides in filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta's films "Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness," "Marianne and Juliane," and "Sheer Madness". Von Trotta's nuanced stagings of suicidal depression, fantasies, attempts, and postsuicide trauma; Blunt depictions of the female corpse as monstrous feminine; Impact of silenced mothers on their daughters; Attempt to compare and contrast the three films draws on Julia Kristeva's seminal work "Black Sun".
- Subjects
SUICIDE; VON Trotta, Margarethe, 1942-; SISTERS or the Balance of Happiness (Film); MARIANNE &; Juliane (Film); SHEER Madness (Film); WOMEN in motion pictures; KRISTEVA, Julia, 1941-; MOTION pictures
- Publication
Women in German Yearbook, 2004, Issue 20, p122
- ISSN
1058-7446
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wgy.2004.0003