Book
Coming Out
| Title: | Coming Out |
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| Authors: | Frackman, Kyle |
| Publisher Information: | Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2022. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Subject Terms: | Motion pictures, German language--Study and teaching, queer people, thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism, Mass media--Study and teaching, international context, social understanding, societal challenges, queer film festivals, homosexuality, 16. Peace & justice, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSJ LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, political events, Area studies, Gender Studies, feature film, Germany (East), East Germany, Film Studies, relationships, thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFX Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, love, acceptance |
| Description: | 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 a fellow teacher, Tanja, but falls in love with a man he meets, Matthias, whose confidence in his own self-understanding is alluring for him as well as a challenge. Acclaimed director Heiner Carow created a film that shows the difficulties, both internalized and external, that queer people faced in East Germany. In a quirk of history, Coming Out premiered in German theaters on November 9, 1989, the very night on which the Berlin Wall was opened, which meant the film was initially overshadowed, to say the least, by the earthshaking political events. Yet it remains a popular film and is regularly screened around the world, including prominently at queer film festivals. This book examines the film in both the late East German context of its creation and the international context of its reception. The open access version of this book is made possible by the UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research. |
| Document Type: | Book Other literature type |
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| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv2dd47r0 |
| DOI: | 10.14288/1.0407069 |
| DOI: | 10.17613/25s5d-10e33 |
| DOI: | 10.17613/ha1k-jb85 |
| Access URL: | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85995 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85995/4/9781800103023.epub https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131819 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2dd47r0 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116137 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85995 |
| Rights: | CC BY NC |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....afb8b18c979ef1c2c7a428d9b6b77298 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv2dd47r0 |
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