REEL FOOD BY ANNA L. BOWER

Reel Food by Anna L. Bower



Reel Food by Anna L. Bower

Chapter 13: Images of Consumption in Jutta Brückner's Years of Hunger

Summary

In this chapter, movie Years of Hunger controller Jutta Brückner values a first-person voice-over narrative to depict four years in the life of a strongly sensed starved adolescent, Ursula Scheuner, increasing up in the midst of West Germany's 1950s “Economic Miracle.” The film depicts Ursula's gradual breakdown as an outcome of her incompetence to contend with the broadening gap between her external surroundings-her family, school, and West German society-and her interior feelings of isolation, ...