"Als Hitler und der Tonfilm kamen": Cinematic, Technological, and Historical Narratives in Gert Hofmann's "Der Kinoerzähler"

In this narrative about narrative, the pithy film summaries placed in the mouth of the eponymous cinema explainer (courtesy of "Reclams Filmführer") expose underlying narrative models: the barer the plot the more visible its skeleton. When the novel as a whole is stripped to its bare bones...

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Published inThe Modern language review Vol. 97; no. 3; pp. 632 - 652
Main Author Paver, Chloe E. M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Belfast Maney Publishing 01.07.2002
Modern Humanities Research Association
Subjects
Film criticism
German history, 1871-1945
Grandfathers
Hofmann, Gert
Literary criticism
Motion picture industry
Movie industry
Movies
Narrative plot
Narratives
Narrators
Nazism
Novels
Portrayals
Synopses
Germany
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Summary:In this narrative about narrative, the pithy film summaries placed in the mouth of the eponymous cinema explainer (courtesy of "Reclams Filmführer") expose underlying narrative models: the barer the plot the more visible its skeleton. When the novel as a whole is stripped to its bare bones, one finds a classic "Third Reich" narrative, of a kind that may soon be extinct. Indeed, the novel attests to the fading of memory in its stylization of the "Nazi" era. In place of authentic detail it offers ("pace" the author) a moral stance on the Third Reich and a refusal of the myth of the 'good German'.
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ISSN:0026-7937
2222-4319
DOI:10.2307/3737497