DEFA After East Germany

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Edited by Brigitta B. Wagner

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Germany

Keywords

Germany, Studio, 1990s

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

Camden House

Collection

Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 366 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-57113-582-7

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Book Presentation:
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany's DEFA filmmakers had a brief window in which to critique GDR society on either side of the Wende, the sweeping political turn that surrounded the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the border. Building on the DEFA Film Library's retrospective Wende Flicks series and Indiana University's DEFA Project, this study examines the newly rediscovered filmic artifacts of this transitional cinema, introducing eighteen key films from 1988 to 1994 in essays by German scholars, film professionals, and cultural figures. Accompanying interviews and historical film reviews present a complex portrait of East German film art, its communist bloc influences, and its legacy for contemporary German film culture. The resulting anthology combines historical, autobiographical, cultural-political, and journalistic discourses to explore the tension between the hopes and frustrations these films express, the historical exigencies that overshadowed their production and reception, and the politics of their revival.

CONTRIBUTORS: Skyler J. Arndt-Briggs, Peter Blank, Claudia Breger, Barton Byg, Knut Elstermann, Peter Kahane, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Thomas Kr ger, Helmut Morsbach, Benjamin Robinson, Katrin Schl sser and Frank L prich, Nicholas Sveholm, Johannes von Moltke, Brigitta B. Wagner.

BRIGITTA B. WAGNER is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Film Studies at the Freie Universit t and in Time-Based Media at the Universit t der K nste in Berlin.

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