Gender and Sexuality in East German Film Intimacy and Alienation
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Biografisk notat
KYLE FRACKMAN is Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian Studies at the University of British Columbia. KYLE FRACKMAN is Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City. MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German and Chair of Modern Language Studies at Texas Christian University. SONJA E. KLOCKE is Professor of German with an affiliation in Gender and Women's Studies as well as European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also serves as Director of the Center for German and European Studies, a DAAD Center of Excellence.Gender and Sexuality in East German Film Intimacy and Alienation
[B]reaks new ground . . . in its exploration of gender in East German cinema. . . . Time and space do not permit me to address all of the articles in [this] ?ne volume . . . . Suf?ce it to note that all of them are well worth reading, even (or especially) where they may spur disagreement or controversy.
- Stephen Brockmann, MONATSHEFTE
[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.
- Anna Luise Kiss, FILMBLATT
[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.
- Stephan Ehrig, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
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.
- Hunter Bivens, GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
[B]reaks new ground . . . in its exploration of gender in East German cinema. . . . Time and space do not permit me to address all of the articles in [this] ?ne volume . . . . Suf?ce it to note that all of them are well worth reading, even (or especially) where they may spur disagreement or controversy.
- Stephen Brockmann, MONATSHEFTE
[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.
- Anna Luise Kiss, FILMBLATT
[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.
- Stephan Ehrig, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
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.
- Hunter Bivens, GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW