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by Julian Preece (Other), Frank Finlay (Other), Julian Preece (Editor)
Andreas Dresen is a leading European filmmaker whose oeuvre now spans three decades, including films such as Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin, 2005). This collection of essays places him in the tradition of auteur cinema while emphasising his roots in the pre-1990 film industry of DEFA in the GDR.
Author Biography
Julian Preece is Professor of German at Swansea University and author and editor of numerous books on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German literature. He is the director of the Swansea Centre for Contemporary German Culture.
Nick Hodgin is Lecturer in German at the University of Sheffield and has published widely on East German culture, especially film. His new projects include a cultural history of the GDR, essays on East German architecture and on documentary film culture of the Cold War.
