Mothers, comrades, and outcasts in East German women's films /

Mothers, comrades, and outcasts in East German women's films /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Creech, Jennifer L., 1973- author.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 280 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	New directions in national cinemas New directions in national cinemas.
Subject:	Women in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Germany (East) -- History. Motion pictures for women -- Germany (East) Motion pictures. Motion pictures for women. Women in motion pictures. Germany (East) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11756964

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ISBN:	9780253023179 0253023173 9780253023179 0253023173 9780253023018 9780253022691 0253023017 025302269X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film merges feminist film theory and cultural history in an investigation of "women's films" that span the last two decades of the former East Germany. Jennifer L. Creech explores the ways in which these films functioned as an alternative public sphere where official ideologies of socialist progress and utopian collectivism could be resisted. Emerging after the infamous cultural freeze of 1965, these women's films reveal a shift from overt political critique to a covert politics located in the intimate, problem-rich experiences of everyday life under socialism. Through an analysis of films that focus on what were perceived as "women's concerns"--Marital problems, motherhood, emancipation, and residual patriarchy--Creech argues that the female protagonist served as a crystallization of socialist contradictions. 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."
Other form:	Print version: Creech, Jennifer L., 1973- Mothers, comrades, and outcasts in East German women's films. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] 9780253023018 0253023017

Table of 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.