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Disconnected 2014

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This is the official Twitter for the [dis]connected project about German History..

Thanks to everyone at the #conference today! Great papers & thought provoking questions! Special thanks to @HelenCFinch & @germanatleeds


EW Film fails to build on critical possibilities of mistaken identity #disc2014


EW talks about use of humour to subvert Nazi racial policy. But audiences must never laugh at the victim #disc2014


Final paper of the day is Elizabeth Ward on 'Identity games in Michael Kann's Stielke, Heinz, fuenfzehn' #disc2014


RG Familial disillusionment shows generational conflict. Yet guilt seen in younger generation shows problematic legacy of Nazi past#disc2014


RG Father in film shows legacy of male Nazi patriarchy but it transcends masculinty by subverting heimat gender stereotypes #disc2014


RG Austrian film has tradition of Heimat cinema but engagement with past was later than Germany due to view of Austria as victim #disc2014


Up now @rachel_green3 on 'Deconstructing heimat in Jessica Hausner's Lovely Rita' #disc2014


AH problem lies in distinguishing between the past and visual representations of the past #disc2014


AM Film deliberately looks to show what Nazi propaganda excluded. Also confronts traditional depiction of victims and perpetrators #disc2014


AM compares critical reaction to film with its self aware discussion on staged reality #disc2014


Next up Alma Melchers on 'Mein Fuehrer: Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit ueber Adolf Hitler #disc2014


LP is modern Berlin lacking by failing to recognise it's unique but problematic cultural history? #disc2014


LP Oh Boy, a comical and satirical look at contemporary German film #disc2014


LP Hitler as a comical character in ahistorical films. History as a backdrop. Deeper narrative level misssing #disc2014


LP using rubbel die katz as a case study looking at role of history in contemporary city #disc2014


LP Allusions to the past are decontextualised and decorative #disc2014


LP 90s film looking back on past as city wanted to move forward #disc2014


LP looking at the interaction between history and film in contemporary berlin #disc2014


After a delicious lunch it's time for @L_Postlethwaite with commoditising Hitler in contemporary film. #disc2014


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