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Table <strong>of</strong> Contents<br />

Supervisory Page ii<br />

Abstract iii<br />

Table <strong>of</strong> Contents iv<br />

Acknowledgments vi<br />

Dedication vii<br />

Introduction 1<br />

Chapter 1: A (De)Politicized West German Cinema: The Heimatfilm and the<br />

Kriegsfilm 9<br />

1.1 The Oberhausen Manifesto and New German Cinema during<br />

the 1960s 12<br />

1.2 The German Autumn and the “Return <strong>of</strong> History as Film” 17<br />

1.3 Images <strong>of</strong> History: The West German Reception <strong>of</strong> Holocaust 23<br />

1.4 Deutschland, bleiche Mutter as Counter-Fiction and Brechtian<br />

Melodrama 30<br />

Chapter 2: New Subjectivity and West German Women’s<br />

Autobiographical Films 34<br />

2.1 Women’s Missing Voices: Herstory in Helma Sanders-Brahms’<br />

Deutschland, bleiche Mutter 39<br />

2.2 Birth and Rape: Two Scenes Emphasizing a Woman’s Gendered<br />

Experience <strong>of</strong> War 45<br />

2.3 The Role <strong>of</strong> Documentary Footage and Radio in<br />

Deutschland, bleiche Mutter 59<br />

2.4 Summarizing Remarks 71<br />

Chapter 3: Storytelling and Memory in Deutschland, bleiche Mutter:<br />

Storytelling as a Female Art 73<br />

iv

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