Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VIII
4. Acknowledgements XI
5. Introduction. Documenting Socialism 1
6. Part I: Studios, Systems and Networks
7. 1. ‘Mountains of Material’: Gerhard Scheumann and the Cinéma Vérité Debate in the GDR 35
8. 2. The DEFA ‘Foreign Ministry Films’: Presenting the GDR to the World, 1962–90 53
9. 3. Diary of the Ordinary: Reinventing the Newsreel. DEFA Kinobox, 1981–90 74
10. Part II: Documentary Auteurs
11. 4. The Archives Testify: The Compilation Films of Annelie and Andrew Thorndike 97
12. 5. ‘How Far Can You Go?’: Everyday Lives in the Films of Kurt Tetzlaff 116
13. 6. Peter Voigt: Socialist Documentary and the Legacy of Brecht 137
14. 7. Critical Truths: Documenting Disillusionment in the Films of Helke Misselwitz, Petra Tschörtner and Angelika Andrees 156
15. Part III: Transnational Documentary
16. 8. East German Documentary Films by and about Sorbs 179
17. 9. ‘Are These Pictures a Deception?’ Socialist Self-Reflexivity in the Cambodia Trilogy of Studio H&S 201
18. 10. Polycentric Images of Africa in East German Documentary Film 222
19. 11. East Germany’s Anti-racist Politics and Black Abjection in Documentary Film 241
20. Part IV: Documenting Alterity
21. 12. Ein Tagebuch für Anne Frank (A Diary for Anne Frank, 1958): The GDR’s Answer to Alain Resnais’ Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1956)? 265
22. 13. A Woman’s Work? Women Soldiers, Masculinities and Binary Panic in Documentaries of the East German Army 287
23. 14. The Queer Cipher in East German Documentary: In Sachen H. und acht anderer ( In the Matter of H. and Eight Others, 1972) and Queer Activist Super 8 Films 307
24. Part V: The Presence of the Past: Reconstructing the Socialist Imaginary
25. 15. The Socialist City and Utopian Temporality in Halle-Neustadt Documentaries 329
26. 16. The Rubble of History: Searching for the German Past in a European Present in Andreas Voigt’s Ostpreußenland (Tales of East Prussia, 1995) and Volker Koepp’s Kalte Heimat (Cold Homeland, 1995) 350
27. Filmography 370
28. Index 377