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   Gender and Sexuality in East German Film
   May 2018
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Gender and Sexuality in East German Film

Intimacy and Alienation
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   The first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address
   the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across
   genres and in social, political, and cultural context.
   The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of
   its state-run studio DEFA, portrayed gender and sexuality in complex
   and contradictory ways. In doing so, it reflected the contradictions in
   GDR society in respect to such questions. This is the first scholarly
   collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of
   gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres (from
   shorts and feature films to educational videos, television productions,
   and documentaries) and in light of social, political, and cultural
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   Reimagining Woman: The Early Shorts of Helke Misselwitz - Reinhild
   Steingröver
   Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies - Kyle
   Frackman
   Gendered Spectacle: The Liberated Gaze in the DEFA Film Der Strass -
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   their introduction the organizational, political, and ideological
   contexts of production and their effects on the representation of sex,
   gender, and sexuality. FILMBLATT [Anna Luise Kiss]
   [T]his is the book so many German film and DEFA researchers have been
   waiting for!...All [the] essays are of high academic standard and a