| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Military masculine ideals and their limits -- Pluralizing the GDR's socialist soldier personality -- Screen violence and the limits of masculine ideals -- Part 2. Challenging performances -- The vulnerable body in uniform -- Retro masculinity and military theatricality -- Part 3. Challenging feelings -- Shame, emotions and military masculinities -- Same-sex desire, archival narration and the NVA's closet -- Conclusion. |
| Access |
unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
"Without question, the East German National People's Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works both before and after reunification place violence, physical vulnerability, and military theatricality, as well as conscripts' powerful emotions and desires, at the center of soldiers' lives and the military institution itself"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Subject |
Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee -- Military life.
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Soldiers -- Germany (East) -- Social conditions.
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Soldiers in literature.
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Soldiers in motion pictures.
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Masculinity -- Germany (East)
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Sociology, Military -- Germany (East)
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History / Europe / Germany.
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Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee. (OCoLC)fst00519349
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Armed Forces -- Military life.
(OCoLC)fst01351813
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Masculinity. (OCoLC)fst01011027
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Sociology, Military. (OCoLC)fst01123942
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Soldiers in literature. (OCoLC)fst01125333
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Soldiers in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01904735
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Soldiers -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01125310
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Germany (East) (OCoLC)fst01210274
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| Added Title |
Military masculinities in East German culture |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Tom (Thomas A.), 1987- Comrades in arms First edition. New York : Berghahn Books, 2020. 9781789205558 (DLC) 2019046031 |
| ISBN |
1789204631 (electronic book) |
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9781789204636 (electronic book) |
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