DEFA after East Germany:

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Wagner, Brigitta B. 1978- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Rochester, New York Camden House 2014
Schriftenreihe:Screen cultures
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Zusammenfassung: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 Krüger, Helmut Morsbach, Benjamin Robinson, Katrin Schlösser and Frank Löprich, Nicholas Sveholm, Johannes von Moltke, Brigitta B. Wagner. Brigitta B. Wagner is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Film Studies at the Freie Universität and in Time-Based Media at the Universität der Künste in Berlin
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Introduction: making history revisible / Brigitta B. Wagner -- Sketching DEFA's past and present. Thoughts for Indiana / Wolfgang Kohlhaase -- Not a bad heritage: an interview with Andreas Dresen / Brigitta B. Wagner -- Spectral images in the afterlife of GDR cinema / Barton Byg -- Film in the face of the wende. The wende in film / Knut Elstermann -- Between times: my experience as a director during the wende / Peter Kahane -- "Look, people, look!": an interview with Eduard Schreiber / Peter Blank -- The theatricality of "shard films": an interview with Jorg Foth / Nicholas Sveholm -- Competing archives: intertextuality and wende narrative in the "last films from East Germany" / Claudia Breger -- The state of being done: film at the end of the second world / Benjamin Robinson -- Migrating DEFA to the FRG. Cinema after the GDR's downfall: the story of o-film / Katrin Schlosser and Frank Loprich -- When Berlin-Brandenburg met Kommerz-Keil: an interview with Klaus Keil / Brigitta B. Wagner -- Performing the GDR: the last DEFA generation and the tradition of theatricality / Johannes Von Moltke -- Surveillance states: structures of conspiracy in wende cinema / Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- Cleansing the system: East German cinema repurposed / Brigitta B. Wagner -- Archive and audience. Historical archaeology: curating the wende flicks series / Skyler J. Arndt-Briggs -- The DEFA Foundation, 2010: rediscover the past-support the future / Helmut Morsbach -- Activating an archive of inner perspectives: political education with DEFA films / Thomas Kruger -- Reception materials -- Progress Film-Verleih and the DEFA Foundation / Kerstin Decker
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 349 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782044024
DOI:10.1017/9781782044024

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