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Kyle Frackman deposited Based on a True Story: Tracking What is Queer about German Queer Documentary in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago“Unter Männern” weaves together three threads of, first, historically relevant memory recited by its chosen protagonists; second, some personal history on the part of the primary filmmaker (i.e., director Ringo Rösener); and, third, between and among them, filmic artifacts or evidence of life in the GDR. This documentary presents the a…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Based on a True Story: Tracking What is Queer about German Queer Documentary in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago“Unter Männern” weaves together three threads of, first, historically relevant memory recited by its chosen protagonists; second, some personal history on the part of the primary filmmaker (i.e., director Ringo Rösener); and, third, between and among them, filmic artifacts or evidence of life in the GDR. This documentary presents the a…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Based on a True Story: Tracking What is Queer about German Queer Documentary in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago“Unter Männern” weaves together three threads of, first, historically relevant memory recited by its chosen protagonists; second, some personal history on the part of the primary filmmaker (i.e., director Ringo Rösener); and, third, between and among them, filmic artifacts or evidence of life in the GDR. This documentary presents the a…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Based on a True Story: Tracking What is Queer about German Queer Documentary on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
“Unter Männern” weaves together three threads of, first, historically relevant memory recited by its chosen protagonists; second, some personal history on the part of the primary filmmaker (i.e., director Ringo Rösener); and, third, between and among them, filmic artifacts or evidence of life in the GDR. This documentary presents the a…[Read more]
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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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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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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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Brigitte Fielder deposited Blackface Desdemona: Theorizing Race on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
This essay explains how blackface performance came to bear upon representations not of Othello, but of Desdemona. Here, we see a theory of race that not only registers its apparent materiality and gendered signification, but also literalizes anxieties about race’s movement through the spectacle of racial transfer. These representations of racial t…[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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Kyle Frackman deposited Vor Ort: The Functions and Early Roots of German Regional Crime Fiction in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago“This essay argues that German regional crime fiction is both a modern development and simultaneously a recollection of crime fiction’s journalistic and literary beginnings. …[R]egional crime fiction has connections to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Fallgeschichten (case stories) that fascinated a developing reading public and satisfied…[Read more]
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