EDGE - A Graduate Journal for German and Scandinavian Studies Volume 4 | Issue 1 Article 5 2014 East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History Josh Alvizu Yale University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/edge Recommended Citation Alvizu, Josh (2014) "East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History," EDGE - A Graduate Journal for German and Scandinavian Studies: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1 , Article 5. Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/edge/vol4/iss1/5 This Review is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in EDGE - A Graduate Journal for German and Scandinavian Studies by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Alvizu: East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History. By Sebastian Heiduschke. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 196 pp. $28.00 Softcover. ISBN: 978-1-137-32231-9. East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History offers a basic introductory text to the state-run institution of the East German film industry, DEFA (Deutsche Filmaktiengesellschaft, “German Film Stock Corporation”). As its flashy cover suggests, East German Cinema strives to be more accessible in the undergraduate classroom than chapters devoted to this topic in more comprehensive recent works by Stephen Brockmann and Sabine Hake.1 Heiduschke’s volume is also more approachable for students than Séan Allan and John Sandford’s older edited volume,