The first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres and in socia

Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and

The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film thr

The collapse of state socialism in East Germany brought about a drastic reduction in the labor market and the consequent masculinization of employment. Alsop (g

Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality.