Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-319) and index.
Contents:
DEFA : an historical overview / Séan Allan -- DEFA and the traditions of international cinema / Barton Byg -- 'Letting the genie out of the bottle' : DEFA film-makers and Film und Fernsehen / Rosemary Stott -- The anti-fascist past in DEFA films / Christiane Mückenberger -- Discussion with Kurt Maetzig / Martin Brady -- Rebels with a cause : the development of the 'Berlin-Filme' by Gerhard Klein and Wolfgang Kohlhaase / Horst Claus -- DEFA : a personal view / Wolfgang Kohlhaase -- Representations of work in the forbidden DEFA films of 1965 / Karen Ruoff Kramer -- Censorship and the law : the case of Das Kaninchen bin ich (I am the rabbit) / Stefan Soldovieri -- Paths of discovery : the films of Konrad Wolf / Anthony S. Coulson -- From models to misfits : women in DEFA films of the the 1970s and 1980s / Andrea Rinke -- The concept of 'Heimat-GDR' in DEFA feature films / Harry Blunk -- The re-evaluation of Goethe and the classical tradition in the films of Egon Günther and Siegfried Kühn / Daniela Berghahn -- Idealism takes on the Establishment : social criticism in Roland Gräf's film adaptations of Märkische Forschungen (Exploring the Brandenburg Marches) and Der Tangospieler (The tango player) / Detlef Gwosc -- The documentary work of Jürgen Böttcher : a retrospective / Richard Kilborn -- Documenting the Wende : the films of Andreas Voigt / Helen Hughes.
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