Introduction: terror and trauma
Terror, trauma, parapraxis. Terror & trauma: Siamese twins of the political discourse
Holocaust and German cinema: the burden of representation
The poetics and politics of parapraxis
Back box: the RAF thirty years after
Parapractic poetics in German films and cinema. Rescued in vain: parapraxis and deferred action in Konrad Wolf's Stars
The persistent resistance of Alexander Kluge
Memory and historicity: the year 1979 and Fassbinder's third generation
Mourning and masquerade: Herbert Achternbusch's The last hole
Re-wind after re-play: Harun Farocki's Respite
Trauma theory reconsidered. From mastering the past to guilt management
Postscript to trauma theory.
German cinema-- terror and trauma : cultural memory since 1945 by Thomas Elsaesser. ISBN 9780415709279. Published by Routledge in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.