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12%OFFJennifer L. Creech - Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women´s Film - 9780253023018 - V9780253023018
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Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women´s Film

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Description for Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women´s Film Paperback. Series: New Directions in National Cinemas. Num Pages: 306 pages, 35 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; APFA; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.

Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film merges feminist film theory and cultural history in an investigation of "women's films" that span the last two decades of the former East Germany. Jennifer L. Creech explores the ways in which these films functioned as an alternative public sphere where official ideologies of socialist progress and utopian collectivism could be resisted. Emerging after the infamous cultural freeze of 1965, these women's films reveal a shift from overt political critique to a covert politics located in the intimate, problem-rich experiences of everyday life under socialism. Through an analysis of films that ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in National Cinemas
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253023018
SKU
V9780253023018
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About Jennifer L. Creech
Jennifer L. Creech is Associate Professor of German at the University of Rochester, where she is Affiliate Faculty in Film and Media Studies, and Associate Faculty at the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies. She is editor (with Thomas O. Haakenson) of Spectacle. Her research and teaching interests include late 20th-century German literature, film, and culture; cinema ... Read more

Reviews for Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women´s Film
Not only is this monograph sure to become an essential resource for Germanists and historians of socialist media and East German culture, but it will also make rewarding reading for feminist scholars keen to explore the implications of the public/private dichotomy and possibilities for women's emancipation under socialism. With this well-researched and skillfully argued study, Creech undertakes the critical intervention ... Read more

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