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  • East German Cinema

    DEFA and Film History

    by S. Heiduschke ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Re-Imagining DEFA

    East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts

    Edited by Séan Allan, Sebastian Heiduschke ...
    By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Documenting Socialism

    East German Documentary Cinema

    Edited by Sebastian Heiduschke, Seán Allan ...
    More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism moves beyond the traditionally analyzed feature film production and places East Germany’s documentary cinema at the center of history behind the Iron Curtain. Covering questions of gender, race and sexuality and the complexities of diversity under the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany

    by Valerie Weinstein ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    How party propagandists worked behind the scenes to create unspoken racist messages in the German culture—even in the most lighthearted of movies.Today many Germans look back fondly on 1930s film comedies, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. Here, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema

    Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

    by Christian Rogowski, John F Fetzer, Joseph Garncarz, Nancy Nenno, Ofer Ashkenazi, Philipp Stiasny, Richard W. McCormick, Veronika Fuechtner, Anjeana K. Hans, Chris Wahl0, Cynthia Walk1, Elizabeth Otto2, Jaimey Fisher3, Professor Jill Suzanne Smith4, Joel Westerdale5 ...
    Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Becoming a Nazi Town

    Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars

    by David Imhoof ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Becoming a Nazi Townreveals the ways in which ordinary Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. Casting the origins of Nazism in a new light, David Imhoof charts the process by which Weimar and Nazi culture flowed into each other. He analyzes this dramatic transition by looking closely at three examples of everyday cultural life in the mid-sized ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • German National Cinema

    by Sabine Hake ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form.The book traces the central role of cinema in the nation’s ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Use and Abuse of Cinema

    German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced close-ups from a nation's production of fantasies and spectacles, traversing the different ways in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

    Edited by John Sandford ...
    With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world.With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • West Germany and the Global Sixties

    The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978

    by Timothy Scott Brown ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    The anti-authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and 1970s was a watershed in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The rebellion of the so-called '68ers' - against cultural conformity and the ideological imperatives of the Cold War, against the American war in Vietnam, and in favor of a more open accounting for the crimes of the Nazi era - helped to inspire a dialogue on democratization with ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Claiming Homes

    Confronting Domicide in Rural China

    by Charlotte Bruckermann ...
    Series Book 26 - Dislocations
    Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Rereading East Germany

    The Literature and Film of the GDR

    Edited by Karen Leeder ...
    This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD