DEFA

DEFAWestern scholars have not lost any of their fascination for East German culture. Cinema in particular continues to attract interest. This volume, the first one in English, traces the development of the main institution, the state sponsored Deutsche Film Anstalt (DEFA), which was primarily responsible for film production in the former GDR from 1946, ceasing to exist in 1992. Although largely ignored outside the former GDR, the DEFA produced anumber of

Diamond determines where rage and anger originate and explores whether these powerful passions are-as most people resume-purely negative

As We Forgive Them is a story of espionage

from maternal practices and thinking-through processes of appropriation

Including their experiences with Benedict Arnold and Quebec's Governor Guy Carleton

or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective

and then explores the subject through today’s political

even the minor ones

placing them in the wider context of political and economic developments in Germany in the 1990s

she argues that realism's bias has a tendency to function as a self-fulfilling prophecy: it nurtures and promotes the very behaviors it assumes predominate human nature

communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze

gathering and analyzing data

Contributors present both analysis of and strategies for managing socio-technical conflict