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Screening the east : Heimat, memory and nostalgia in German film Since 1989 / Nick Hodgin.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.G3 H63 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hodgin, Nick.
- Series:
- Film Europa ; v. 11.
- Berghahn on film
- Film Europa : German cinema in an international context ; v. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Heimatfilme.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Germany.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--Germany.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--Germany.
- Heimatfilme--History and criticism.
- Nostalgia in motion pictures.
- Germany (East)--In motion pictures.
- Germany (East).
- Culture in motion pictures.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- In the years following unification, there has been a growing sense among many Germans in the east that differences between Germany's east and west not only remain, but have been growing in recent years. This book investigates how these differences have been represented in German film since 1989, addressing debates about East German identity along the way. It identifies two East German identities being represented in post-Cold War film--the reemergence of a Heimat (homeland) identity celebrating the traditions of an imagined all-German past and the other celebrating aspects of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and mourning a perceived decline of the East German community--and argues that both are regressive in their representations. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Mapping identity
- Heimat stories : east meets west
- Lost landscapes
- At the back of beyond : Heimat east
- Berlin : disorientation/reorientation
- Good bye, Ostalgie?
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-214) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages [199]-202.
- ISBN:
- 9780857451286
- 0857451286
- 0857451294
- 9780857451293
- OCLC:
- 681487369
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