Gender and sexuality in East German film : intimacy and alienation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Frackman, Kyle (Editor), Stewart, Faye, 1972- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.
Series:Screen cultures.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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 E. 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.