Comrades in Arms

Book Author

Tom Smith

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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.

Additional information

Book Author

Tom Smith

Format

Ebooks

ISBN-13

9781789205558

Language

English

Pages

786

Publication Date

02-02-2020

Publisher

Berghahn Books

About Author

Dr Tom Smith

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