Lecture by Thomas Elsaesser
February 7, 2013
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
The Department of Germanic Studies at UIC welcomes
Thomas Elsaesser
“From ‘Mastering the Past’ to ‘Managing Guilt’: Germany’s Paradigm Change after Unification“
In this lecture, Professor Elsaesser will address the historiographic and narrative paradigm shift in German literature and film from around 2003/2004, wherein Germany went from being imagined as a complicit population of perpetrators to being figured as a nation of victims.
Thomas Elsaesser, Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam, is an historian of film and media theorist. His award-winning books include New German Cinema: A History, Fassbinder’s Germany: History Identity Subject, European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood, and most recently The Persistence of Hollywood.
Refreshments will be served.
Date posted
Jun 4, 2020
Date updated
Jun 4, 2020