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Coming out /

"It took forty years for East Germany's state-run studios, DEFA, to produce a feature film about homosexuality: Coming Out. The film's story seems radically ordinary today: a young teacher, Philipp, is gay but cannot accept the truth about his sexuality. He starts a relationship with...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frackman, Kyle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2022.
Series:Camden house German film classics; 9
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Heiner Carow and film's revolutionary potential
  • Homosexuality in East Germany
  • The distress of coming out
  • Melodrama and its excesses
  • Romance and the love story
  • Philipp and Tanja's courtship
  • Queer exploration
  • Change and upheval
  • a new beginning
  • Coming out and reconciling identities
  • Acceptance
  • Release, reception, and legacy.