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Cinema of Collaboration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Cinema of Collaboration

From their very inception, European cinemas undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” In the postwar era, it was DEFA, the state cinema of East Germany, that emerged as a key site for cooperative practices. Despite the significant challenges that the Cold War created for collaboration, DEFA sought international prestige through various initiatives. These ranged from film exchange in occupied Germany to partnerships with Western producers, and from coproductions with Eastern European studios to strategies for film co-authorship. Uniquely positioned between East and West, DEFA proved a crucial mediator among European cinemas during a period of profound political division.

Science on Screen and Paper
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Science on Screen and Paper

During the Cold War, scientific discoveries were adapted and critiqued in many different forms of media across a divided Europe. Now, more than 30 years since the end of the Cold War, Science on Screen and Paper explores the intersections between scientific research and media by drawing from media history, film studies, and the history of science. From public relations material to educational and science films, from children’s magazines to television broadcasts, the contributions in this collected volume seek to embrace medial differences and focus on intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science.

Passing Illusions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Passing Illusions

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by "passing" as non-Jews

Secrets from the NATO Kitchens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Secrets from the NATO Kitchens

Zum 60. Geburtstag der NATO haben sich die Ehefrauen der 28 NATO-Botschafter zusammengetan, um einen Einblick in ihre jeweiligen Landesküchen zu geben. Alle Überschüsse aus dem Buchverkauf gehen über den Verein Lachen Helfen e.V. an die Mario-Keller-Schule in Afghanistan.

Cinematically Transmitted Disease
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 151

Cinematically Transmitted Disease

Propaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial purity and euthanasia, but little has been said on the impact of medical hygiene films. Cinematically Transmitted Disease explores these films for the first time, from their inception during the Weimar era and throughout the years to come. In this innovative volume, author Barbara Hales demonstrates how medical films as well as feature films were circulated among the German people to embed and enforce notions of scientific legitimacy for racial superiority and genetically spread “incurable” diseases, creating and maintaining an instrumental fear of degradation in the German national population.

The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass

A major contribution to Grass scholarship that looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases or stages of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style.

The Films of Konrad Wolf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Films of Konrad Wolf

This is the first book in any language on the films of Konrad Wolf (1925-1982), East Germany's greatest filmmaker, and puts Wolf in a larger European filmic and historical context.

Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin’s identities. German historians, art historians, architectural historians, and literary and cultural studies scholars explore the divisions and antagonisms that defined East and West Berlin; and by tracing the little studied similarities and extensive exchanges that occurred despite the presence of the Berlin Wall, they present an indispensible study on the politics and culture of the Cold War.