Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: making history revisible / Brigitta B. Wagner -- Sketching DEFA's past and present. Thoughts for Indiana / Wolfgang Kohlhaase -- Not a bad heritage: an interview with Andreas Dresen / Brigitta B. Wagner -- Spectral images in the afterlife of GDR cinema / Barton Byg -- Film in the face of the wende. The wende in film / Knut Elstermann -- Between times: my experience as a director during the wende / Peter Kahane -- "Look, people, look!": an interview with Eduard Schreiber / Peter Blank -- The theatricality of "shard films": an interview with Jorg Foth / Nicholas Sveholm -- Competing archives: intertextuality and wende narrative in the "last films from East Germany" / Claudia Breger -- The state of being done: film at the end of the second world / Benjamin Robinson -- Migrating DEFA to the FRG. Cinema after the GDR's downfall: the story of o-film / Katrin Schlosser and Frank Loprich -- When Berlin-Brandenburg met Kommerz-Keil: an interview with Klaus Keil / Brigitta B. Wagner -- Performing the GDR: the last DEFA generation and the tradition of theatricality / Johannes Von Moltke -- Surveillance states: structures of conspiracy in wende cinema / Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- Cleansing the system: East German cinema repurposed / Brigitta B. Wagner -- Archive and audience. Historical archaeology: curating the wende flicks series / Skyler J. Arndt-Briggs -- The DEFA Foundation, 2010: rediscover the past-support the future / Helmut Morsbach -- Activating an archive of inner perspectives: political education with DEFA films / Thomas Kruger -- Reception materials -- Progress Film-Verleih and the DEFA Foundation / Kerstin Decker.
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