Rewriting (East) German Film Summer Film Institute
The Fifth Biennial East German Film Summer Film Institute
DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
July 12-19, 2009
2009 marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War. As its ideological divisions and artistic legacies come into clearer view, previously neglected aspects of East German cinema become available to critical reassessment as well - and with it, the concepts and methodologies that have guided much of the scholarship on postwar German film. In this week-long seminar, we propose to focus on media historical and institutional perspectives that until know have been neglected or ignored given the continued preference for thematic and textual readings. In so doing, we also want to use the continued provocation of East German cinema to confront a number of historiographical and methodological issues in the study of postwar German cinema, including questions of periodization, institutional continuities, conceptions of cinema as a public sphere, and film's contribution to the audio-visual legacy of the twentieth century.Application:
Please
submit
a 2-3 page letter outlining your interest in participating in the
seminar, along with a curriculum vitae (and a letter of
recommendation, in the case of Ph.D. students) to all four
organizers:
Barton Byg - byg(at)german.umass.edu
Sabine Hake - Hake(at)mail.utexas.edu
Larson Powell - [log in to unmask]" target="_blank">powelllar(at)umkc.edu
Sky Arndt Briggs - sky(at)german.umass.edu
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