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Screening the East considers German filmmakers' responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity. The book identifies and analyses a large number of films, from internationally successful box-office hits, to lesser-known productions, many of which are discussed here for the first time. Providing an insight into the films' historical and political context, it considers related issues such as stereotyping, racism, regional particularism and the Germans' confrontation with the past.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Films and Identity: Reflecting the Nation
Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia
Chapter 1. Mapping Identity
After Unity: Stereotypes and Dissent
A Post-GDR Identity?
Ostalgie - Recharging the Batteries of Identity
Chapter 2. Heimat Stories: East Meets West
The Heimatfilm: Past Genres for Present Tensions
Heimatas Refuge
Locating Heimat in the GDR
Screening Heimat in the GDR
Contesting Heimat
An Island Mentality:D Brocken
Heimat Found?Go Trabi Go II. Das war der wilde Osten
Conclusion: Triumph of the Underdog
Chapter 3. Lost Landscapes
Provincial Fears and Loathing
Escaping Heimat
Failed Utopia?
Paradise Lost?
Post-unification Landscapes: Charting Memory
Stories from the Margins
Still Life: Representing the East
Memory and Loss
Neben der Zeit: Memories in Ruins, Ruined Memories
Landscape and Meaning
Chapter 4. At the Back of Beyond: Heimat East
On the Road Again
The Occidental Tourists: Wir Können auch anders
Resisting Stereotypes
On the Run
The Community as Mob
Borderland/Bored Land
Community Undone
Chapter 5. Berlin: Disorientation/Reorientation
After Unification: Lapsus memoriae?
No-Man's Land
Orientations
Haunted by the Past
Disorientation
New Cartographies: Berlin is in Germany
Chapter 6. Good Bye, Ostalgie?
Commodifying the Past
Disneyland GDR
Reimagining the GDR
Recycling the Past: Der Zimmerspringbrunnen
Reconstructing the GDR
Between Ostalgie and Westalgie
Fade to Grey: NVA
Stasiland GDR
Conclusion
A Community Apart?
Towards Normalization?
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
