Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Frackman, Kyle (1979-....)
Titre(s) : Coming out [Texte imprimé] / Kyle Frackman
Publication : Rochester [New York] : Camden House, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 100 pages : illustrations (color) ; 19 cm
Collection : German film classics
Lien à la collection : Camden House German film classics
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
"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. Kyle Frackman's book examines the film in both
the late East German context of its creation and the international context of its
reception"
Sujet(s) : Carow, Heiner (1929-1997) -- Critique et interprétation
Coming out (film)
Homosexualité -- Au cinéma -- Allemagne (République démocratique)
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.437 2 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Film particulier
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781640140899. - ISBN 1640140891. - ISBN 9781800103030 (erroné). - ISBN 9781800103023
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47053112g
Notice n° :
FRBNF47053112
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
