TY - JOUR
T1 - Re-viewing the margins: Peripheral memory and remnants of war in the East German DEFA film, Carbide and Sorrel (Frank Beyer, 1963)
AU - Pinkert, Anke
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Based on a close reading of Frank Beyer's Carbide and Sorrel (1963), this essay explores cinematic peripheries as sites where the cultural memory of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath was negotiated in East German DEFA films of the 1960s. Rather than construing the sonic, narrative and visual margins as incessantly haunted by traumatic losses related to the war, Beyer's film foregrounds the spectator's participatory engagement in the production of memory. As the film draws the viewer's attention to residues of catastrophic experiences in the limits of cinematic space, the periphery also enables an affective and perceptual reframing of the past that underscores the reparative and life-affirming force of selective remembering, if not forgetting.
AB - Based on a close reading of Frank Beyer's Carbide and Sorrel (1963), this essay explores cinematic peripheries as sites where the cultural memory of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath was negotiated in East German DEFA films of the 1960s. Rather than construing the sonic, narrative and visual margins as incessantly haunted by traumatic losses related to the war, Beyer's film foregrounds the spectator's participatory engagement in the production of memory. As the film draws the viewer's attention to residues of catastrophic experiences in the limits of cinematic space, the periphery also enables an affective and perceptual reframing of the past that underscores the reparative and life-affirming force of selective remembering, if not forgetting.
M3 - Article
SN - 1565-3323
VL - 12
SP - 23
EP - 45
JO - Hagar: Studies in Culture Polity and Identity
JF - Hagar: Studies in Culture Polity and Identity
IS - 1
ER -