Introduction : Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema / Kyle Frackman and Faye Stewart -- Hypnagogic Mothers : Gender, Amateur Film Labor, and the Transmissive Materiality of the Maternal Body / John Lessard -- Powerless Heroines : Gender and Agency in DEFA Films of the 1960s and 1970s / Henning Wrage -- Jutta Hoffmann and the Dialectics of Happiness : A Socialist Star in Close-Up / Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn -- Who Is the "Third"? Homosociality and Queer Desire in Der Dritte / Faye Stewart -- Volatile Intimacies and Queer Polyamory in GDR Film / Evan Torner -- Interracial Romance, Taboo, and Desire in the Eastern Counter-Western Blutsbrüder / Heidi Denzel de Tirado -- The Desire to Be Desired? Solo Sunny as Socialist Woman's Film / Larson Powell -- Ambivalent Sexism : Gender, Space, Nation, and Renunciation in Unser kurzes Leben / Muriel Cormican -- Dealing with Cancer, Dealing with Love : Gender, Relationships, and the GDR Medical System in Lothar Warneke's Die Beunruhigung / Sonja E. Klocke -- Reimagining Woman : The Early Shorts of Helke Misselwitz / Reinhild Steingröver -- Shame and Love : East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies / Kyle Frackman -- Gendered Spectacle : The Liberated Gaze in the DEFA Film Der Strass / Jennifer L. Creech and Sebastian Heiduschke.
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