description: Revising his PhD dissertation for the University of Sterling, Scotland (no date noted), Hamburg-based journalist Meurer examines the role of movies in the east-west dispute over identity during the last decade that the two German states remained separate. His topics include the discourse of German cinema, the mediation of national identity, political pressures on production, the central role of distribution, the organization of exhibition, bourgeois politics of the self, and socialist politics of the other. Appended are a glossary, films, and tables of data. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Cinema and National Identity in a Divided Germany 1979-1989: The Split Screen
titlecomplete: Cinema and National Identity in a Divided Germany 1979-1989: The Split Screen (Studies in History and Criticism of Film, 2)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr