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Books to look out for in May 2018
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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
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]
[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]
