COLLEGE-LEVEL SYLLABI
Eric Ames, East German Cinema (University of Washington)
Sophie Boyer, Introduction to German Film (Bishop's University)
Silke von der Emde, The Cinema of the Other Germany (Vassar College)
Elizabeth Hamilton, East German Cinema (Oberlin College)
Anke Pinkert, German Cinema "Behind the Wall" (University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana)
Anke Pinkert, The Divided Screen: East and West German Postwar Cinema (University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana)
Andrea Rinke, Contemporary German Culture and Society Since 1945 (Kingston University)
Katie Trumpener, Eastern European New Waves (University of Chicago)
Katie Trumpener, Post War Germany and the New German Cinema (University of Chicago)
We thank the scholars who have shared their syllabi with us and others interested in East German cinema!
TEACHING GUIDES
With the help of outside scholars and educators, the DEFA Film Library provides teaching guides for selected DEFA films. The goal is to help teachers in a variety of classroom settings use films that speak directly to issues that concern students and other young people today. For the selected films, teaching guides are available on our website.
Our teaching guides are meant to give teachers information and ideas for how they can use a given film in an English-language classroom. The full-color PDF documents include:
- Recommendations for teachers and others;
- plot summary;
- the historical context of the production;
- a film's commentary;
- short biographies of the director / cast;
- several pages of teaching activities and resources;
- and a selected bibliography.
TEACHING GUIDES (PDF download):
COMING SOON!
#9 - ...and Fridays at the Green Hell
#10 - Apprehension