Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema 1
6. 1: Hypnagogic Mothers: Gender, Amateur Film Labor, and the Transmissive Materiality of the Maternal Body 22
7. 2: Powerless Heroines: Gender and Agency in DEFA Films of the 1960s and 1970s 42
8. 3: Jutta Hoffmann and the Dialectics of Happiness: A Socialist Star in Close-Up 62
9. 4: Who Is the “Third”? Homosociality and Queer Desire in Der Dritte 84
10. 5: Volatile Intimacies and Queer Polyamory in GDR Film 104
11. 6: Interracial Romance, Taboo, and Desire in the Eastern Counter- Western Blutsbrüder 126
12. 7: The Desire to Be Desired? Solo Sunny as Socialist Woman’s Film 146
13. 8: Ambivalent Sexism: Gender, Space, Nation, and Renunciation in Unser kurzes Leben 166
14. 9: Dealing with Cancer, Dealing with Love: Gender, Relationships, and the GDR Medical System in Lothar Warneke’s Die Beunruhigung 185
15. 10: Reimagining Woman: The Early Shorts of Helke Misselwitz 204
16. 11: Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies 225
17. 12: Gendered Spectacle: The Liberated Gaze in the DEFA Film Der Strass 249
18. Contributors 269
19. Index 273