Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin. BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri. DAVID CLARKE is Professor of Modern German Studies at Cardiff University, UK. MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin. Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. SEÁN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universität in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment, interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts, as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House, 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters, entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist, Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012), and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book, Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019), investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film, but also literature, music, and the visual arts in post-war cinema.

[A] highly successful undertaking that should find a wide readership including advanced undergraduate and graduate seminars . . . . Unlike so many collections, where one cherry-picks interesting articles, it is clearly rewarding to read Screening War as a whole. . . . [A] rich and comprehensive picture about how film and the German cultural memory of World War II have developed over the last 65 years.

• Introduction: German Suffering? - Paul Cooke and Marc SilbermanArmchair Warriors: Heroic Postures in the West German War Film - Jennifer M. KapczynskiGerman Martyrs: Images of Christianity and Resistance to National Socialism in German Cinema - David ClarkeThe Rhetoric of Victim Narratives in West German Films of the 1950s - Manuel KoeppenSissi the Terrible: Melodrama, Victimhood, and Imperial Nostalgia in the Sissi Trilogy - Erica CarterPolitical Affects: Antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf - Sabine HakeShadowlands: The Memory of the Ostgebiete in Contemporary German Film and Television - Tim BergfelderLinks and Chains: Trauma between the Generations in the Heimat Mode - Rachel PalfreymanResistance of the Heart: Female Suffering and Victimhood in DEFA's Antifascist Films - Daniela BerghahnSuffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA - Brad PragerEberhard Fechner's History of Suffering: TV Talk, Temporal Distance, Spatial Displacement - John DavidsonThe Politics of Feeling: Alexander Kluge on War, Film, and Emotion - Johannes von MoltkePost-unification German-Jewish Relations and the Discourse of Victimhood in Dani Levy's Films - Sean Allan

Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin. BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri. DAVID CLARKE is Professor of Modern German Studies at Cardiff University, UK. MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin. Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. SEÁN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universität in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment, interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts, as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House, 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters, entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist, Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012), and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book, Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019), investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film, but also literature, music, and the visual arts in post-war cinema.

[A] highly successful undertaking that should find a wide readership including advanced undergraduate and graduate seminars . . . . Unlike so many collections, where one cherry-picks interesting articles, it is clearly rewarding to read Screening War as a whole. . . . [A] rich and comprehensive picture about how film and the German cultural memory of World War II have developed over the last 65 years.

• Introduction: German Suffering? - Paul Cooke and Marc SilbermanArmchair Warriors: Heroic Postures in the West German War Film - Jennifer M. KapczynskiGerman Martyrs: Images of Christianity and Resistance to National Socialism in German Cinema - David ClarkeThe Rhetoric of Victim Narratives in West German Films of the 1950s - Manuel KoeppenSissi the Terrible: Melodrama, Victimhood, and Imperial Nostalgia in the Sissi Trilogy - Erica CarterPolitical Affects: Antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf - Sabine HakeShadowlands: The Memory of the Ostgebiete in Contemporary German Film and Television - Tim BergfelderLinks and Chains: Trauma between the Generations in the Heimat Mode - Rachel PalfreymanResistance of the Heart: Female Suffering and Victimhood in DEFA's Antifascist Films - Daniela BerghahnSuffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA - Brad PragerEberhard Fechner's History of Suffering: TV Talk, Temporal Distance, Spatial Displacement - John DavidsonThe Politics of Feeling: Alexander Kluge on War, Film, and Emotion - Johannes von MoltkePost-unification German-Jewish Relations and the Discourse of Victimhood in Dani Levy's Films - Sean Allan

Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin. BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri. DAVID CLARKE is Professor of Modern German Studies at Cardiff University, UK. MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin. Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. SEÁN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universität in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment, interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts, as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House, 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters, entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist, Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012), and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book, Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019), investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film, but also literature, music, and the visual arts in post-war cinema.

[A] highly successful undertaking that should find a wide readership including advanced undergraduate and graduate seminars . . . . Unlike so many collections, where one cherry-picks interesting articles, it is clearly rewarding to read Screening War as a whole. . . . [A] rich and comprehensive picture about how film and the German cultural memory of World War II have developed over the last 65 years.

• Introduction: German Suffering? - Paul Cooke and Marc SilbermanArmchair Warriors: Heroic Postures in the West German War Film - Jennifer M. KapczynskiGerman Martyrs: Images of Christianity and Resistance to National Socialism in German Cinema - David ClarkeThe Rhetoric of Victim Narratives in West German Films of the 1950s - Manuel KoeppenSissi the Terrible: Melodrama, Victimhood, and Imperial Nostalgia in the Sissi Trilogy - Erica CarterPolitical Affects: Antifascism and the Second World War in Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf - Sabine HakeShadowlands: The Memory of the Ostgebiete in Contemporary German Film and Television - Tim BergfelderLinks and Chains: Trauma between the Generations in the Heimat Mode - Rachel PalfreymanResistance of the Heart: Female Suffering and Victimhood in DEFA's Antifascist Films - Daniela BerghahnSuffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA - Brad PragerEberhard Fechner's History of Suffering: TV Talk, Temporal Distance, Spatial Displacement - John DavidsonThe Politics of Feeling: Alexander Kluge on War, Film, and Emotion - Johannes von MoltkePost-unification German-Jewish Relations and the Discourse of Victimhood in Dani Levy's Films - Sean Allan