Documenting Socialism

East German Documentary Cinema

Seán Allan, Sebastian Heiduschke (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

390 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-657-4 (ISBN)

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More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism moves beyond the traditionally analyzed feature film production and places East Germany’s documentary cinema at the center of history behind the Iron Curtain. Covering questions of gender, race and sexuality and the complexities of diversity under the political and cultural environments of socialism, the specialist contributions in this volume cohere into an introductory milestone on documentary film production in the GDR.

Seán Allan is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews and holds a Joint Research Professorship in Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft at the University of Bonn. His publications include Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (co-edited with Sebastian Heiduschke, Berghahn Books, 2016), Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (Berghahn Books, 2019), and Inspiration Bonaparte: German Culture under Napoleonic Occupation (Camden House, 2021).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Documenting Socialism

Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke

Part I: Studios, Systems and Networks

Chapter 1. ‘Mountains of Material’: Gerhard Scheumann and the Cinéma Vérité Debate in the GDR

Matthew Bauman

Chapter 2. The DEFA ‘Foreign Ministry Films’: Presenting the German Democratic Republic to the World, 1962-1990

Thomas Maulucci

Chapter 3. Diary of the Ordinary Reinventing the Newsreel: DEFA Kinobox, 1981–1990

Reinhild Steingröver

Part II: Documentary Auteurs

Chapter 4. The Archives Testify: The Compilation Films of Annelie and Andrew Thorndike

Helen Hughes

Chapter 5. ‘How Far Can You Go?’ Everyday Lives in the Films of Kurt Tetzlaff

Nick Hodgin

Chapter 6. Peter Voigt: Socialist Documentary and the Legacy of Brecht

Seán Allan

Chapter 7. Critical Truths: Documenting Disillusionment in the Films of Helke Misselwitz, Petra Tschörtner, and Angelika Andrees

Jennifer L. Creech

Part III: Transnational Documentary

Chapter 8. East German Documentary Films by and about Sorbs

Andy Räder

Chapter 9. ‘Are These Pictures a Deception?’ Socialist Self-Reflexivity in the Cambodia Trilogy of Studio H&S

Martin Brady

Chapter 10. Polycentric Images of Africa in East German Documentary Film

Sebastian Heiduschke

Chapter 11. East Germany’s Anti-Racist Politics and Black Abjection in Documentary Film

Priscilla Layne

Part IV: Documenting Alterity

Chapter 12. Ein Tagebuch für Anne Frank [A Diary for Anne Frank, 1958]: The GDR’s answer to Alain Resnais’s Nuit et Brouillard [Night and Fog, 1956]

Elizabeth M. Ward

Chapter 13. A Woman’s Work? Women Soldiers, Masculinities and Binary Panic in Documentaries of the East German Army

Tom Smith

Chapter 14. The Queer Cipher in East German Documentary: In Sachen H. und acht anderer [In the Matter of H. and Eight Others] and Queer Activist Super 8 Films

Kyle Frackman

Part V: The Presence of the Past. Reconstructing the Socialist Imaginary

Chapter 15. The Socialist City and Utopian Temporality in Halle-Neustadt Documentaries

Stephan Ehrig

Chapter 16. The Rubble of History. Searching for the German Past in a European Present in Andreas Voigt’s Ostpreußenland [Tales of East Prussia, 1995] and Volker Koepp’s Kalte Heimat [Cold Homeland, 1995]

Jason Doerre

Filmography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.07.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-657-9 / 1805396579
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-657-4 / 9781805396574
Zustand	Neuware