Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Studies in Eastern European Cinema |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 29-42 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISSN | 2040-350X |
| Publication status | Published - 12 Feb 2010 |