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