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Kyle Frackman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Kyle Frackman deposited The East German Film ‘Coming Out’ (1989) as Melancholic Reflection and Hopeful Projection on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
This essay argues that the East German film “Coming Out” (1989) achieves a dual objective: to reflect a version of the current living conditions for gay citizens of the GDR and to project the possibility of an enlightened future in which they, and other outsiders, do not face discrimination because of their difference. Director Heiner Carow’s “…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter introduces the volume on East German film. The chapter and the volume it introduces surveys a range of depictions of gender and sexuality in East German film and television, from stereotypical and ideologically compliant understandings of femininity and homosexuality to more ambivalent constructions of androgyny, gendered agency, and…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter introduces the volume on East German film. The chapter and the volume it introduces surveys a range of depictions of gender and sexuality in East German film and television, from stereotypical and ideologically compliant understandings of femininity and homosexuality to more ambivalent constructions of androgyny, gendered agency, and…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter introduces the volume on East German film. The chapter and the volume it introduces surveys a range of depictions of gender and sexuality in East German film and television, from stereotypical and ideologically compliant understandings of femininity and homosexuality to more ambivalent constructions of androgyny, gendered agency, and…[Read more]
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Ervin Malakaj's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Kyle Frackman deposited Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
This chapter introduces the volume on East German film. The chapter and the volume it introduces surveys a range of depictions of gender and sexuality in East German film and television, from stereotypical and ideologically compliant understandings of femininity and homosexuality to more ambivalent constructions of androgyny, gendered agency, and…[Read more]
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Beverly Weber's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Kyle Frackman deposited The Other Love in the Other Germany: East German Film, Media, and Social Change for Gay Rights on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
Compared to its Western neighbour, the Federal Republic, the German Democratic Republic had experienced stunted growth in a number of areas, including that of lesbian and gay rights. Although the two countries decriminalized homosexual acts at about the same time (1968 in the East, 1969 in the West), their trajectories then diverged in the years…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
This essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Beverly Weber deposited Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminisms on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
Despite the recent wave of scholarship on intersectionality, as well as a surge in feminist scholarship on Islam in German feminist studies, feminist research has yet to adequately engage with the role of religion in intersectionality. In this article the author draws on the work of the Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen in Germany to explore the…[Read more]
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Beverly Weber deposited Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
Fereshta Ludin’s struggle to be appointed as a public school teacher while wearing ahijab received massive media attention in Germany, while the xenophobically motivated murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, who was eventually dubbed the “hijab martyr” internationally, elicited muted response. Yet interpreting the reactions to these two cases toget…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Persistent Ambivalence: Theorizing Queer East German Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
The German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) had an ambivalent relationship with homosexuality. Under the principles of socialism, everyone was welcome to contribute to the greater good. The situation for queer people, here lesbians and gay men, was different: one of illegality and invisibility. A difficulty in analyzing these experiences is…[Read more]
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Beverly Weber's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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Beverly Weber's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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