From Hitler to Heimat: the return of history as film

Part 1 Images of history - postwar German films and the Third Reich: the politics of representation the flight from memory the return of the repressed. Part 2 Germany as myth - Hans Jurgen Syberberg's Hitler, a Film from Germany: history at a standstill postmodernist staging myth and identity irrationalism reclaimed. Part 3 presence of the past - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun: the politics of private life historical narration history as trauma the end of Utopia. Part 4 In search of Germany - Alexander Kluge's The Patriot: nomadic history the constructivist method archaeology and imagination the new patriotism. Part 5 Our childhoods, ourselves - Helma Sanders-Brahms' Germany, Pale Mother: autobiography and memory fatherland, mother tongue feminist historiography. Part 6 Germany as memory - Edgar Reitz's Heimat: scenes from the provinces history of the everyday memory and technology history - made in Germany. Part 7 Epilogue - history, memory, and film: film and videotape sources.