Description: Title: Defa After East Germany Editor: Brigitta Wagner, Brigitta Publisher: Camden House (NY) Binding: Hardcover Pages: 366 Dimensions: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d Product Weight: 1.5 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781571135827 Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall. 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 andthe 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, itscommunist 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 KrÌ?ger, Helmut Morsbach, Benjamin Robinson, Katrin Schl̦sser and Frank L̦prich, Nicholas Sveholm, Johannes von Moltke, Brigitta B. Wagner. Brigitta B. Wagner is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Film Studies at the Freie UniversitÌ?t and in Time-Based Media at the UniversitÌ?t der KÌ?nste in Berlin. Authorized Dealer Stock Photo- Actual Cover May Vary Ships Fast From The USA!
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Book Title: Defa After East Germany
Number of Pages: 366 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Defa after East Germany
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Europe / Germany, Industries / Entertainment, Film / History & Criticism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.7 Oz
Author: Brigitta B. Wagner
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual Ser.
Format: Hardcover
