TY - GEN

T1 - Germany is not Texas. Finding reunified Germany in the Rural: Christoph Schlingensief’s The German Chain Saw Massacre

AU - Pogoda, Sarah

PY - 2020/5/4

Y1 - 2020/5/4

N2 - This article explores the transnational qualities of the Chain Saw narrative via a comparison of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Christoph Schlingensief’s The German Chain Saw Massacre (1990) with a focus on the latter.The article challenges the idea of transnational narratives by identifying the cultural specificity of both films. However it does acknowledge Schlingensief’s The German Chain Saw Massacre as an ingenious appropriation of Hooper’s original for the unique historical framework of the German Reunification.

AB - This article explores the transnational qualities of the Chain Saw narrative via a comparison of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Christoph Schlingensief’s The German Chain Saw Massacre (1990) with a focus on the latter.The article challenges the idea of transnational narratives by identifying the cultural specificity of both films. However it does acknowledge Schlingensief’s The German Chain Saw Massacre as an ingenious appropriation of Hooper’s original for the unique historical framework of the German Reunification.

KW - Film

KW - Christoph Schlingensief

KW - Tobe Hooper

KW - Chain Saw Massacre

KW - Transnationalism

KW - German Reunification

KW - Horror

KW - Splatter

KW - National Myth

M3 - Article

JO - Cine-Excess

JF - Cine-Excess

ER -