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Violent Women in Print
Clare Bielby
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First book to explore print-media representations of 1970s German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective, while also examining media coverage of other violent women. As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger's 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany's terrorist period, which reached its height in the "German autumn" of 1977, is still a fascinating -- and troubling -- subject. One of the most provocative aspects, still today, is the high proportion of women involved in terrorism, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. That the film concentrates on the trajectory of Meinhof's life and ... Read more
First book to explore print-media representations of 1970s German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective, while also examining media coverage of other violent women. As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger's 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany's terrorist period, which reached its height in the "German autumn" of 1977, is still a fascinating -- and troubling -- subject. One of the most provocative aspects, still today, is the high proportion of women involved in terrorism, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. That the film concentrates on the trajectory of Meinhof's life and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135308
SKU
V9781571135308
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About Clare Bielby
CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK.
Reviews for Violent Women in Print
By looking at continuities and ruptures in the representation of violent women in postwar West Germany, Bielby takes an important step toward recontextualizing the portrayal of women terrorists in the media.
GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
Bielby convincingly demonstrates that the mix of written and visual language in the national
and influential
news publications she considers creates an ... Read more
GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
Bielby convincingly demonstrates that the mix of written and visual language in the national
and influential
news publications she considers creates an ... Read more