"Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the state, in the form of the so-called "bourgeois humanist inheritance." The large numbers of professional orchestras in the GDR were touted as a proof of the country's culture. Classical music could be seen as the polar opposite of Americanizing pop culture and also of musical modernism, wh ..."
From Weimar to Christiania(1st Edition) German and Scandinavian Studies in Context by KyleFrackman, Florence Feiereisen Hardcover, 205 Pages, Published 2007 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-84718-186-2, ISBN: 1-84718-186-4
"From Weimar to Christiania is a new compilation of graduate student work in the fields of German and Scandinavian Studies. Resulting from research presented at a unique graduate student conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, these essays utilize a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and represent an ambitious and successful effort to connect related yet distinct fields. This anthology is aimed at scholars within the ..."
"The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of its state-run studio DEFA, portrayed gender and sexuality in complex and contradictory ways. In doing so, it reflected the contradictions in GDR society in respect to such questions. This is the first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres (from shorts and feature films t ..."
"This is perhaps due to his early falling out with Kanak Attak, when in 1999 he
decided to write a script for a film of the same name. He was able to maintain the
title, but was required to change the spelling of Attak through the addition of the
standard “c.” Understandably, this led to much confusion in the media, and one
can certainly wonder if some of the credit he received for the formation of Kanak
Attak is not, in fact, a byp ..."
Coming Out (Camden House German Film Classics, 9) by Frackman, Kyle Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 2022 by Camden House ISBN-13: 978-1-64014-089-9, ISBN: 1-64014-089-1
"The film's story seems radically ordinary today: a young teacher, Philipp, is gay but cannot accept the truth about his sexuality."
"From gay and lesbian political activism during the 1960s and 70s through the 1980s queer movement inspired by the AIDS crisis to the recent push towards normalization for same-sex couples via registered partnerships and adoption rights, LGBT issues have been moving steadily into the political and cultural mainstream of the German-speaking lands. A host of German LGBT culture has emerged in recent years, including films and literary work ..."
"Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. During the 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce ..."
An Other Kind of Home(1st Edition) Gender-sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film (Kulturtransfer Und Geschlechterforschung Transcultural and Gender Studies) by KyleFrackman Hardcover, 181 Pages, Published 2014 by Peter Lang Pub Inc ISBN-13: 978-3-631-62837-9, ISBN: 3-631-62837-4
"In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of abjection. Other elements of identity include race and disease. The characters in the analyzed works encounter both mutual dependence and abh ..."
Kulturtransfer und Geschlechterforschung An Other Kind of Home : Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film 9 by KyleFrackman Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-3-653-99823-8, ISBN: 3-653-99823-9
Kulturtransfer und Geschlechterforschung An Other Kind of Home : Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film 9 by KyleFrackman Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-3-653-99824-5, ISBN: 3-653-99824-7