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Leonie Naughton,
THAT WAS THE WILD EAST.
FILM CULTURE, UNIFICATION,
AND THE "NEW" GERMANY.
The University of Michigan Press, USA, 2002,
brossura, 15x22 cm., pp. XVIII-267,
illustrazioni fotografiche in bianco e nero,
Collana: Social history, popular culture, and politics
in Germany,
testo in inglese,
peso: g.477
cod.3911
CONDIZIONI DEL LIBRO: ottime



dalle note editoriali:
That Was the Wild East presents critical insight into popular film culture
and art house cinema in Germany from 1990-1999.
It examines box-office hits and cult films, such as the "Trabi comedies" and
unification farces, which delighted local and international audiences, but
which have been granted scarce critical attention up to this point.
The first detailed account of the representation of German unification on film
to appear, either in English or German, this work provides valuable and engaging
source material otherwise inaccessible to non-German readers.
In her focus on a range of "unification films," Leonie Naughton analyzes
impressions of unification fostered in films from the East and West, along with
the comic and tragic anxieties these films attribute to life in the "new" Germany.
The ways in which German filmmakers represented unification throughout the 1990s
are discussed with reference to a broad range of recent German films, and Naughton
examines both divergent and convergent cinematic impressions of life in a recently
unified Germany by 1990s filmmakers.
Those interested in film studies and film history, German history and culture, as
well as German unification and recent developments in German cinema, will find
this book especially appealing.
Leonie Naughton is a research associate, The University of Melbourne, Australia.



INDICE
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One
Introduction
Chapter 1. Barriers between East and West
Chapter 2. Film Production at DEFA Studios
Chapter 3. DEFA wird abgewickelt / Dealing with DEFA
Chapter 4. DEFA—Das Ende für Alle / The End for Everyone
Chapter 5. Ost Fernsehen / East Television

Part Two
Chapter 6. Unification Films
Chapter 7. Heimat Tradition and Revival
Chapter 8. Unification Comedies—Rising to the Bait
and No More Mr. Nice Guy
Chapter 9. The “Trabi Comedies,” Part 1
Chapter 10. The “Trabi Comedies,” Part 2
Chapter 11. Directions in East German Filmmaking after DEFA
Conclusion: Unification Siegergeschichten
Bibliography