Spedizione Espresso Screening the Red Army Faction Historical and Cultural Memory Professor Christina Gerhardt (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA) 9781501361630

Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media, film and art, locating an analysis of these texts in the historical and political context of unfolding events. In this way, the book contributes both a new history and a new cultural history of post-fascist era West Germany that grapples with the fledgling republic’s most pivotal debates about the nature of democracy and authority; about violence, its motivations and regulation; and about its cultural afterlife. Looking back at the history of representations of the RAF in various media, this book considers how our understanding of the Cold War era, of the long sixties and of the RAF is created and re-created through cultural texts.
Analyzes the filmic, literary and artistic depictions of the RAF, revealing both the history of the group and the cultural memory of it.
Book Information
ISBN 9781501361630
Author Professor Christina Gerhardt
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 431g