Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Tender Gaze
- 1 Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema
- 2 The Tender Gaze, Embodied Politics, and Perspective-Taking in German Postdramatic Theater
- 3 Face to Face: Race, Gender, and the Gaze in Mo Asumang’s Die Arier
- 4 “Risse, hinter denen man einen Kern entdeckt, der so ähnlich ist wie die Herzen von uns allen”: The Tender Gaze in Umut Dağ’s Risse im Beton
- 5 Looking through the Eyes of Empathy: Encouraging a Culture of Caring and Compassion in Doris Dörrie’s Keiner liebt mich
- 6 The Tender and Transgressive Beast Within: Escape Narratives in Films by Krebitz, Stuber, and Speckenbach
- 7 Looking at Looking in Margarethe von Trotta’s Das Versprechen
- 8 A Queer Phenomenology of Gender in Maren Ade’s Alle Anderen and Toni Erdmann
- 9 Rilke’s “Schauen”
- 10 Pity Stares or Tender Gaze? Seeing Disability in Nineteenth-Century Austrian and German Literature
- 11 The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck’s “Liebeszauber”
- 12 Mothering, Animals, and the Surveillance State in the Anthropocene: An Ecofeminist Reading of Birgit Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Tender Gaze
- 1 Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema
- 2 The Tender Gaze, Embodied Politics, and Perspective-Taking in German Postdramatic Theater
- 3 Face to Face: Race, Gender, and the Gaze in Mo Asumang’s Die Arier
- 4 “Risse, hinter denen man einen Kern entdeckt, der so ähnlich ist wie die Herzen von uns allen”: The Tender Gaze in Umut Dağ’s Risse im Beton
- 5 Looking through the Eyes of Empathy: Encouraging a Culture of Caring and Compassion in Doris Dörrie’s Keiner liebt mich
- 6 The Tender and Transgressive Beast Within: Escape Narratives in Films by Krebitz, Stuber, and Speckenbach
- 7 Looking at Looking in Margarethe von Trotta’s Das Versprechen
- 8 A Queer Phenomenology of Gender in Maren Ade’s Alle Anderen and Toni Erdmann
- 9 Rilke’s “Schauen”
- 10 Pity Stares or Tender Gaze? Seeing Disability in Nineteenth-Century Austrian and German Literature
- 11 The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck’s “Liebeszauber”
- 12 Mothering, Animals, and the Surveillance State in the Anthropocene: An Ecofeminist Reading of Birgit Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- The Tender GazeCompassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage, pp. 225 - 232Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021