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East German Cinema
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.
Millennial Essays on Film and Other German Studies
The papers contained in this collection represent a cross-section of research and teaching interests at the turn of the millennium. The first section of the book concentrates on cinema studies, from the earliest reception of film to a focus on the cinema of the GDR. These papers show the importance of cinema studies in many German departments today. The inclusiveness of German cultural studies owes a great deal to Weimar theorists such as Walter Benjamin, who is also represented here in a study of his relationship to Jewish scholarship. A serious - though not over-earnest - analysis of German popular music since 1945 earns a place among these essays alongside a paper on the 'higher' cultural form of the novel, whose 1990s manifestations are reviewed here. Other contributions engage with equally important and topical Germanistic concerns: new and imaginative approaches to language teaching and learning.
DEFA
Traces the development of the state-sponsored company (DEFA), which was primarily responsible for film production in East Germany from 1946 to 1992. Most of the 16 essays were presented at a conference in Reading, England, at an unspecified date. Looking at specific films and scriptwriters, they analyze the representation of fascism and anti-fascism in the 1940s and 1950s, conflicts between the state and film makers in the 1960s, and social-political criticism of the 1970s and early 1980s. Paper edition (unseen), $25. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Von der Momentaufnahme zum Erinnerungsbild - Die DDR im Film
Einleitung: ‘Denn kaum ein anderes Medium als der Film spiegelt gesellschaftliche Realitäten unmittelbarer und zeitnaher wider, nirgendwo sonst lässt sich kollektives Erleben besser nachempfinden [...]’. Jedes Jahr lockt Berlin mit seinen zahlreichen historischen Erinnerungsorten, Gedenkstätten und Museen nicht nur Touristen aus aller Welt, sondern auch einheimische Besucher an. Die Geschichten, die hier vermittelt werden, führen jedoch oft in die Irre, stellte die britische Historikerin und Professorin für Neuere Deutsche Geschichte Mary Fulbrook vor einigen Jahren fest. Die Aufarbeitung der DDR-Geschichte sei noch immer unzureichend, so die Wissenschaftlerin. Ihrer Ansicht nach se...
Uexküll, Psychosomatische Medizin
Psychosomatische Medizin im Überblick – behandeln Sie Menschen, nicht Krankheiten!Auch in der 9. Auflage stellt der "Uexküll" alle Aspekte der Psychosomatischen Medizin umfassend und fundiert dar. Entsprechend den Ideen Thure von Uexkülls will das Werk die Integration psychosomatischen Denkens in allen medizinischen Fachgebieten fördern und beschränkt sich deshalb ganz bewusst nicht auf das Fachgebiet "Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie. Entscheidend ist die therapeutische Haltung: Im Mittelpunkt steht die Patientin bzw. der Patient mit ihrer bzw. seiner individuellen Wirklichkeit, die es zu berücksichtigen gilt, um ein optimales therapeutisches Ergebnis zu erzielen. Dabei wird keine t...
German Culture through Film
German Culture through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema is an English-language text that serves equally well in courses on modern German film, in courses on general film studies, in courses that incorporate film as a way to study culture, and as an engaging resource for scholars, students, and devotees of cinema and film history. In its second edition, German Culture through Film expands on the first edition, providing additional chapters with context for understanding the era in which the featured films were produced. Thirty-three notable German films are arranged in seven chronological chapters, spanning key moments in German film history, from the silent era to the present. Each chapter begins with an introduction that focuses on the history and culture surrounding films of the relevant period. Sections within chapters are each devoted to one particular film, providing film credits, a summary of the story, background information, an evaluation, questions and activities to encourage diverse interpretations, a list of related films, and bibliographical information on the films discussed.
The Triumph of the Ordinary
Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent? In the first major study in English of East German film, Joshua Feinstein argues that the answer to this question is decidedly complex. Drawing on newly opened archives as well as interviews with East German directors, actors, and state officials, Feinstein traces how the cinematic depiction of East Germany changed in response to national political developments and transnational cultural trends such as the spread of television and rock 'n' roll. Celluloid images fed a larger sense of East German identity, an identity that persists today, more than a decade after German reunification. But even as they attempted to satisfy ca...
