The film Nasty Girl goes hand in hand with Olaf Hoerchelmann's ideas about public memory. "Public memory is an important process through which the collective identity of a community is constructed" (Hoerschelmann). In the film, Sonja's battle to find the truth about her hometown's involvement in the Holocaust threatens to deconstruct her community's identity and therein lies the main conflict of the film.
In the movie, Sonja is selected to write an essay on her hometown's involvement in Nazi Germany during the Third Reich. Throughout her life, Sonja was led to believe that her town resisted the Nazi uprising, which in her mind glorifies her town. She was told that because of their Christian beliefs (and according to Hoerschelmann this was not uncommon for German Christians, particularly Protestants) her town resisted the Nazi uprising. However, when Sonja goes to research the topic, she comes up empty handed several times. She can not find information on her town's involvement until approximately half way through the film. It is here that she begins to discover the truth, which is that her town's current leaders were not only involved in the Third Reich, but also that there was also a nearby concentration camp.
It is at this point that the viewer (but perhaps only a non-Germanic viewer) begins to wonder why the lying takes place. Is there some scandal? The answer is no, it's simply a difficult time for Germans to accept having involvement in and a perpetuation of public memory. The town does not want to admit involvement because it not only saddens them, as it does most people, but it also incriminates the townspeople. Somehow the town hopes that by pretending they were never involved, the past will be erased and their memory of their involvement will disappear.
" popular memory often relies on a tradition of oral culture that is passed on among subordinate groups" (Hoerschelmann). The memory of the town's involvement (the public memory at least) is shaped because of the oral culture that was passed down.
Girl Culture Lauren Greenfield's exhibition Girl Culture captures the unique yet widely shared experience of growing up female. Greenfield uses vivid color photographs along with textual interviews of the subjects to explore what it's like to grow up female in today's commercial society. She expo...
This at the middle school level is not appropriate for the girls and boys to interact in. ... Another difference I noticed was the desire of guys to be with guys and girls to be with girls. ... The men seem to rather have the least skilled guy over the best skilled girl. ... In the elementary level the major difference was the age-old argument that girls nasty and guys nasty. The girls definitely do not want to be paired with guys and vice versa. ...
It was about a family that had three daughters and a mean and nasty mother. ... When the young girl's grandmother died the youngest daughter went crazy and was sent to a crazy home. ... When the young girl returned home and saw her first love they began to have feelings for each other. ... These visions happened until the young girl finally told her mother to stay away and never come back. ... Also the family cookbook that the young girl used remained in the family for generations to come....
Later on, when Antonia becomes one of "the hired girls," immigrant women who work for families in Black Hawk, Jim describes the low opinion that the citizens have for these girls. ... I knew, too, that Ambrosch put upon her some chores a girl ought not to do, and that the farm-hands around the country joked in a nasty way about it" (Cather 81). ... While helping her brother in his work, she must face bigotry having to endure the unwarranted, nasty comments from the rest of town, including those of her closest friend. ... That's what girls say, but you know better. Every han...
The Bluest Eye novel concentrates on the life of three young girls: Pecola Breedlove, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer. ... She is an 11-year old black girl who wants to have the eyes of a white girl, blue eyes. ... You nasty little black bitch! ... Pecola thinks that Geraldine called her "nasty" because of her appearance and dark skin. A little girl does not really know what that word means, but she knows it's awful. ...
More than once, there have been news reports about young girls being sent home because their clothes are deemed unfit for school because they might distract their male peers. Since I was five years old my parents enrolled me in an all girls Catholic school. ... But despite every nasty moment I lived in single-sex school, I wouldn't change any of it because it helped me be the strong woman I am today. ... As a Catholic all girl school alumni I can say that my experience in those schools made me feel empowered and inspired by strong female mentors that helped me believe that anything was po...
Everyday, everywhere we go we gee a teenage girl pregnant. ... Not only do we run the risk of pregnancy, but we also run the risk of getting a very nasty disease. ... I wish more kids would think about having unprotected sex, when they see an fifteen, or sixteen year old girl pregnant. ...
