Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.25595/2077
Author(s)
Figge, Maja
Journal Title
FKW : Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year of publication
2016
Issue number
59
Page reference
38–49
Language
deutsch
Abstract
The following essay takes as its starting point the observation that colonial/racist imagery, sounds, figures and metaphors can be found in many 1950s West-German films. Referring to the Freudian notion of screen memories, which can be understood as memories of a past that were never present, the essay asks how these filmic actualizations of africanist tropes established a vision of an unburdened past. By looking at three films the essay shows that actualizations of africanist – racist – imagery are key; not only for the transcription of the Nazi as well as the colonial past, but also for establishing a memory that allows for the construction of a self-image as re-covered and therefore no longer racist.
Subject
Erinnerungskultur
Film
Postkolonialismus
Rassismus
1950er
Afrika
Film
Postkolonialismus
Rassismus
1950er
Afrika
Publication type
Zeitschriftenartikel
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