ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on the analysis of film reception used in Chapter 2 to argue for an understanding of patrilineal identification in both late-Victorian imperialism and in ColdWar Germany. More specifically, this chapter examines director Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s films within the context of both Opas Kino and New German Cinema in order to demonstrate the way in which his film, like Robert Louis Stevenson’s literature, formulated a notion of male virility that cohered to both middle- and high-brow value systems. The father figure in Stevenson’s and Liebeneiner’s works – Long John Silver – functions in similar yet somewhat distinct ways to address the sins of Britain’s Imperialist and Germany’s National-Socialist past.
