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Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
List of contents
Introduction: Making History ReVisible
Thoughts for Indiana
Not a Bad Heritage: An Interview with Andreas Dresen
Spectral Images in the Afterlife of GDR Cinema
The
Wende in Film
Between Times: My Experience as a Director during the
Wende"Look, People, Look!": An Interview with Eduard Schreiber
The Theatricality of "Shard Films": An Interview with Jörg Foth
Competing Archives: Intertextuality and
Wende Narrative in the "Last Films from East Germany"
The State of Being Done: Film at the End of the Second World
Cinema after the GDR's Downfall: The Story of Ö-Film
When Berlin-Brandenburg Met Kommerz-Keil: An Interview with Klaus Keil
Performing the GDR: The Last DEFA Generation and the Tradition of Theatricality
Surveillance States: Structures of Conspiracy in
Wende Cinema
Cleansing the System: East German Cinema Repurposed
Historical Archaeology: Curating the
Wende Flicks Series
The DEFA Foundation, 2010: Rediscover the Past-Support the Future
Activating an Archive of Inner Perspectives: Political Education with DEFA Films
Vorspiel (1987)
flüstern & SCHREIEN (1988)
Coming Out (1989)
Leipzig im Herbst (1989) and
Östliche Landschaft (1991)
Die Architekten (1990)
Die Mauer (1990)
Letztes aus der DaDaeR (1990)
Der Tangospieler (1991)
Verriegelte Zeit (1991)
Das Land hinter dem Regenbogen (1992)
Verfehlung (1992)
Stilles Land (1992)
Jana und Jan (1992)
Herzsprung (1992)
Sammelsurium-Ein ostelbischer Kulturfilm (1992)
Miraculi (1992)
Burning Life (1994)
The Schlöndorff Controversy (2008)
Selected Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors and Curators
Index
About the author
Brigitta B. Wagner
