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Drawing on archival research and interviews with directors,
writers, and editors, Last Features is the story of forgotten films
made during the time of German unification. Last Features is the
story of forgotten films made during the time of German
unification. With leftover GDR funds and under chaotic conditions,
a group of young East German filmmakers produced around thirty
stylistically diverse films. Most of these films were lost in the
political upheaval of the Wende, disappearing until the 2009
Wendeflicks festival in Los Angeles brought them back for an
international audience. Now available on DVD, these films provide
unique insights into the generational struggle in the DEFA studio,
East German youth culture in the 1970s, women directors at DEFA,
the relationship between the artist and the state, and the protests
of 1989. Last Features focuses in particular on the production
group "DaDaeR," the creation of which in 1989 fulfilled a
longstanding request by the last generation of DEFA directors for
freer production conditions. Drawing onarchival research and
interviews with the directors, writers, and editors of the films in
question, each chapter examines specific films from the last year
of DEFA, contextualizing the analysis of these "last features" with
a comprehensive discussion of the directors' overall oeuvres, the
historical changes in the studio and the country, and the lasting
importance of these films today. Reinhild Steingroever is Associate
Professor of German and Film Studies in the Department of
Humanities at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and
scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a
unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but
lost them after World War I. Children born of German mothers and
African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were
persecuted by the Nazis. After World War II, many children were
born to African American GIs stationed in Germany and German
mothers. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany out of a
population of 80 million. Nevertheless, German society still sees
them as "foreigners," assuming they are either African or African
American but never German. In recent years, the subject of
Afro-Germans has captured the interest of scholars across the
humanities for several reasons. Looking at Afro-Germans allows us
to see another dimension of the nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century ideas of race that led to the Holocaust.
Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into
contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not, into a
multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not only by
addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining scholars
from many disciplines. Patricia Mazon is Associate Professor in the
Department of History at the State University of New York at
Buffalo. Reinhild Steingrover is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music at the
University of Rochester.
Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically in the
last decades with digitalization and the use of video and the
Internet. Yet despite predictions of a negative effect on
experimental film, the German and Austrian filmscape is filled with
dynamic new experiments, as new technological possibilities push a
break with the past, encouraging artists to find new forms. This
volume of theoretically engaged essays explores this new landscape,
introducing the work of established and emerging filmmakers,
offering assessments of the intent and effect of their productions,
and describing overall trends. It also explores the relationship of
today's artists to the historical avant-garde, revealing a vibrant
form of artistic engagement that has a history but has certainly
not ended. The essays address such questions as the effects of
transformations of cinematic space; the political effects of the
breakdown of barriers between experimental film and advertising,
and of the rise of music videos and reality TV; the effects of the
collapse of the Soviet bloc, the rise of capitalism, and the
European movement on experimental film work; and whether these
experiments are aligned with mass political movements -- for
instance that of anti-globalization -- or whether they strive for
autonomy from quotidian politics. Randall Halle is Klaus W. Jonas
Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of
Pittsburgh. Reinhild Steingrover is Associate Professor of German
in the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music.
An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent
years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities
for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation
into a multicultural society. Since the Middle Ages, Africans have
lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and
refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it
acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I.
Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the
French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis. After
World War II, many children were born to African American GIs
stationed in Germany and German mothers. Today there are 500,000
Afro-Germans in Germany out of a population of 80 million.
Nevertheless, German society still sees them as "foreigners,"
assuming they are either African or African American but never
German. In recent years, the subject of Afro-Germans has captured
the interest of scholars across the humanities for several reasons.
Looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of race that led to
the Holocaust. Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides
insight into contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not,
into a multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not
onlyby addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining
scholars from many disciplines. Patricia Mazon is Associate
Professor in the Department of History at the State University of
New York at Buffalo. Reinhild Steingrover is Assistant Professor in
the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music at the
University of Rochester.
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