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Contents
| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Introduction: "Strategies of Remembrance" | 1 | |
| PART I. | HISTORICAL PREDECESSORS: MELODRAMA AND MODERNISM | |
| 1. | Mourning, Melancholia, and "New German Melodrama" | 29 |
| 2. | Modernism's Aftershocks: Peer Raben's Film  Music for Fassbinder | 70 |
| PART II. | MUSIC AND THE MATERIALS OF HISTORY: ALEXANDER KLUGE | |
| 3. | Kluge's Assault on History: Trauma, Testimony, and Difference in The Patriot | 107 |
| 4. | Undoing Act 5: History, Bodies, and Operatic Remains: Kluge's The Power of Emotion | 138 |
| PART III. | QUEERING HISTORY THROUGH CAMP AND KITSCH | |
| 5. | Restaging History with Fantasy: Body, Camp, and Sound in the  Films of Treut, Ottinger,and von Praunheim | 173 |
| 6. | Introjecting Kitsch: Werner Schroeter, Music, and Alterity | 231 |
| Coda: Working the Pieces | 267 | |
| Notes | 279 | |
| Index | 313 |