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Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film / Jennifer L. Creech.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Creech, Jennifer L., 1973- author.
Series:
New directions in national cinemas.
New directions in national cinemas
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Germany (East)--History.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures for women--Germany (East).
Motion pictures for women.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Summary:
By framing their politics in terms of women's concerns, these films used women's desire and agency to contest the more general problems of social alienation and collectivism, and to re-imagine the possibilities of self-fulfillment under socialism.
Contents:
Introduction: rescuing history from the ruins
Happily ever after? the emancipatory politics of female desire in Lot's wife
The lonely woman? (re)production and feminine desire in the Bicycle and on probation
Pleasure in seeing ourselves? all my girls
Real women: goodbye to winter and the documentary women's film
Conclusion: after the fall.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780253023179
0253023173
OCLC:
954536932

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