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During Hitler's reign, Nazis deliberately developed and exploited a youthful image and used youth to define their political and social hierarchies. This title analyzes a variety of media, including literature, news media, and films, in order to argue that youth and education played a central role in Germany's coming to terms with the Nazi past.

Collective memory --- Reconstruction (1939-1951) --- Youth movements --- Youth --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- History --- Germany --- Social conditions

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German Ways of War deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, German Ways of War addresses an important lacuna in media studies: while scholars have tended to focus on the similarities between cinematic looking and weaponized targeting -- between shooting a camera and discharging a gun – this book argues that war films negotiate spaces throughout that frame their violence in ways more revealing than their battle scenes. Beyond that well-known intersection of visuality and violence, German Ways of War explores how the genre frames violence within spatio-affective operations. The production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects transform war films, including the genre’s manipulation of mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks. Such effects amount to what author Jaimey Fisher terms the films’ “affective geographies” that interweave narrative-generated affects, spatial depictions, and political processes.

Space and time in motion pictures. --- War films --- History and criticism. --- war, German, Germany, politics, film, propaganda, photography, geography, war film, battle, cinema, Nazi, WWII, WWI.

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Motion pictures --- Politics in motion pictures. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Political aspects --- History --- History and criticism --- Film --- Germany

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The phrase “spatial turns” signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: “Mapping Spaces” addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; “Spaces of the Urban” takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; “Spaces of Encounter” considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and “Visualized Spaces” concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.

Cartography in literature. --- Cities and towns in literature. --- Cities and towns in motion pictures. --- German literature --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures, German. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Setting (Literature). --- Space in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Thematology --- Place (Philosophy) in art. --- Setting (Literature) --- Place (Literature) --- Authorship --- Drama --- Fiction --- Literature --- German motion pictures --- Foreign films --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Setting and scenery --- Technique --- History and criticism --- Germany --- Civilization. --- Ethnic relations.

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This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it offers new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decades, placing The Lives of Others within its wider historical, political, aesthetic and industrial context. On the other, it offers this group of scholars, which includes many of the leading international figures in the field, opportunity to make a series of interventions on the state of contemporary German film and German film studies.

Culture in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History --- History and criticism --- Leben der Anderen (Motion picture) --- Lives of others (Motion picture) --- Leben der Anderen (Motion picture). --- "The Lives of Others". --- Contemporary German Film.