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* Gender and Sexuality in East German Film
Gender and Sexuality in East German Film
May 2018
20 black and white illustrations
296 pages
9x6 in
Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
Camden House
BIC APFA, 1DFGE, 2AB, 3JJP
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Gender and Sexuality in East German Film
Intimacy and Alienation
Edited by Kyle Frackman, Faye Stewart
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9781571139924
£75.00
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9781787442504
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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
contexts. It is also unique in its investigation of previously
unresearched subjects, including films and directors that have received
little scholarly attention and nonconformist representations of gender
and sexual embodiments, identifications, and practices. The volume
presents the work of leading scholars on the GDR and allows students
and scholars to examine East German film with respect to the
acceptance, rejection, or nuanced negotiation of ideas of proper male
and female behavior espoused by the country's brand of socialism.
Contributors: Muriel Cormican, Jennifer L. Creech, Heidi Denzel de
Tirado, Kyle Frackman, Sebastian Heiduschke, Sonja E. Klocke, John
Lessard, Larson Powell, Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn, Reinhild Steingröver,
Faye Stewart, Evan Torner, Henning Wrage.
Kyle Frackman is Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies at the
University of British Columbia. Faye Stewart is Associate Professor of
German at Georgia State University.
Keywords: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual, Film &
Theatre, German Literature, Women's & Gender Studies
* Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema - Kyle Frackman
and Faye Stewart
Hypnagogic Mothers: Gender, Amateur Film Labor, and the Transmissive
Materiality of the Maternal Body - John Lessard
Powerless Heroines: Gender and Agency in DEFA Films of the 1960s and
1970s - Henning Wrage
Jutta Hoffmann and the Dialectics of Happiness: A Socialist Star in
Close-Up - Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn
Who Is the "Third"? Homosociality and Queer Desire in Der Dritte - Faye
Stewart
Volatile Intimacies and Queer Polyamory in GDR Film - Evan Torner
Interracial Romance, Taboo, and Desire in the Eastern Counter-Western
Blutsbrüder - Heidi Denzel de Tirado
The Desire to Be Desired? Solo Sunny as Socialist Woman's Film - Larson
Powell
Ambivalent Sexism: Gender, Space, Nation, and Renunciation in Unser
kurzes Leben - Muriel Cormican
Dealing with Cancer, Dealing with Love: Gender, Relationships, and the
GDR Medical System in Lothar Warneke's Die Beunruhigung - Sonja Klocke
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 -
Jennifer L. Creech and Sebastian Heiduschke
Reviews
[This collection of essays] shows once again what new perspectives on
the film history and audiovisual culture of the GDR can be opened by
the application of feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, by a
comprehensive historical contextualization, and by looking at parallel
or related developments outside the GDR. . . . [T]he editors lay out in
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
great pleasure to read...[T]his volume is a commendable achievement and
will inspire researchers well acquainted with the GDR, as well as
serving as an introduction to East German film. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
[Stephan Ehrig]
Ultimately East German socialism posed the question of reconfiguring
regimes of gender, intimacy, and labor, a question that East German
filmmakers took on without supplying solutions that only life itself
could provide. [This book] is an excellent contribution to the
understanding of how this dialectic of happiness plays out in the film
culture of the GDR. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW [Hunter Bivens]
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