Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation

The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of its state-run studio DEFA, portrayed gender and sexuality in complex and contradictory ways. In doing so, it reflected the contradictions in GDR society in respect to such questions. This is the first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres (from shorts and feature films to educational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139923
• ISBN13: 9781571139924
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"