Coming to terms with the past: post-1989 strategies in German film culture

TY - JOUR

T1 - Coming to terms with the past: post-1989 strategies in German film culture

AU - Bondebjerg, Ib

PY - 2010/2/12

Y1 - 2010/2/12

N2 - This article deals with institutional changes and differences between the two German film cultures before and after 1989 during the unification process. But the main focus is on different genres and strategies in films dealing with the East German past and the unified post-1989 Germany, and with directors with an East German background and directors with a West German background. The article looks into three specific generic strategies: the historical transition drama; the realist strategy and the comedy strategy and the very different ways they treat the past; the transition and the present.

AB - This article deals with institutional changes and differences between the two German film cultures before and after 1989 during the unification process. But the main focus is on different genres and strategies in films dealing with the East German past and the unified post-1989 Germany, and with directors with an East German background and directors with a West German background. The article looks into three specific generic strategies: the historical transition drama; the realist strategy and the comedy strategy and the very different ways they treat the past; the transition and the present.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2040-350X

VL - 1

SP - 29

EP - 42

JO - Studies in Eastern European Cinema

JF - Studies in Eastern European Cinema

IS - 1

ER -