Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: "Strategies of Remembrance" PART 1. HISTORICAL PREDECESSORS: MELODRAMA AND MODERNISM 1. Mourning, Melancholia, and "New German Melodrama" 2. Modernism's Aftershocks: Peer Raben's Film Music for Fassbinder PART 2. MUSIC AND THE MATERIALS OF HISTORY: ALEXANDER KLUGE 3. Kluge's Assault on History: Trauma, Testimony, and Difference in The Patriot 4. Undoing Act 5: History, Bodies, and Operatic Remains: Kluge's The Power of Emotion PART 3. QUEERING HISTORY THROUGH CAMP AND KITSCH 5. Restaging History with Fantasy: Body, Camp, and Sound in the Films of Treut, Ottinger, and von Praunheim 6. Introjecting Kitsch: Werner Schroeter, Music, and Alterity Coda: Working the Pieces Notes Index

About the Author

Caryl Flinn is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Strains of Utopia: Nostalgia, Gender, and Hollywood Film Music (1992) and coeditor of Music and Cinema (2001).

Reviews

"Using the musical soundtrack as her 'Auftakt, ' Caryl Flinn revisits melodrama and melancholia, camp and kitsch, and memory and shock in the works of such filmmakers as Fassbinder, Kluge, Ottinger, Treut, and Schroeter. The resulting intellectual counterpoint is dazzling."