The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage

doi:10.1017/9781787447981

By exploring the concept of the 'tender gaze' in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behaviors.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Tender Gaze
pp 1-16
- By Muriel Cormican, Jennifer Marston William
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1 - Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema
pp 17-39
- By Muriel Cormican
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2 - The Tender Gaze, Embodied Politics, and Perspective-Taking in German Postdramatic Theater
pp 40-59
- By Jennifer Marston William
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3 - Face to Face: Race, Gender, and the Gaze in Mo Asumang’s Die Arier
pp 60-75
- By Nancy Nenno
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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
pp 76-89
- By Nikhil Sathe
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5 - Looking through the Eyes of Empathy: Encouraging a Culture of Caring and Compassion in Doris Dörrie’s Keiner liebt mich
pp 90-106
- By Erika Nelson Mukherjee
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6 - The Tender and Transgressive Beast Within: Escape Narratives in Films by Krebitz, Stuber, and Speckenbach
pp 107-124
- By Mary-Elizabeth O’Brien
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7 - Looking at Looking in Margarethe von Trotta’s Das Versprechen
pp 125-142
- By John Blair
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8 - A Queer Phenomenology of Gender in Maren Ade’s Alle Anderen and Toni Erdmann
pp 143-158
- By Gary Schmidt
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9 - Rilke’s “Schauen”
pp 159-176
- By Lorna Martens
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10 - Pity Stares or Tender Gaze? Seeing Disability in Nineteenth-Century Austrian and German Literature
pp 177-193
- By Anna-Rebecca Nowicki
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11 - The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck’s “Liebeszauber”
pp 194-205
- By Joseph D. Rockelmann
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12 - Mothering, Animals, and the Surveillance State in the Anthropocene: An Ecofeminist Reading of Birgit Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund
pp 206-220
- By Christina Weiler
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Notes on the Contributors
pp 221-224
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Index
pp 225-232
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Introduction: The Tender Gaze
pp 1-16

1 - Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema
pp 17-39

2 - The Tender Gaze, Embodied Politics, and Perspective-Taking in German Postdramatic Theater
pp 40-59

3 - Face to Face: Race, Gender, and the Gaze in Mo Asumang’s Die Arier
pp 60-75

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
pp 76-89

5 - Looking through the Eyes of Empathy: Encouraging a Culture of Caring and Compassion in Doris Dörrie’s Keiner liebt mich
pp 90-106

6 - The Tender and Transgressive Beast Within: Escape Narratives in Films by Krebitz, Stuber, and Speckenbach
pp 107-124

7 - Looking at Looking in Margarethe von Trotta’s Das Versprechen
pp 125-142

8 - A Queer Phenomenology of Gender in Maren Ade’s Alle Anderen and Toni Erdmann
pp 143-158

9 - Rilke’s “Schauen”
pp 159-176

10 - Pity Stares or Tender Gaze? Seeing Disability in Nineteenth-Century Austrian and German Literature
pp 177-193

11 - The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck’s “Liebeszauber”
pp 194-205

12 - Mothering, Animals, and the Surveillance State in the Anthropocene: An Ecofeminist Reading of Birgit Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund
pp 206-220

Notes on the Contributors
pp 221-224

Index
pp 225-232

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