Neubau Atmospheres

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Neubau Atmospheres is written by Stephan Ehrig and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1836951833 (ISBN 10) and 9781836951834 (ISBN 13).

The artistic potential modern, urban housing (“Neubau”) offered to writers and directors in East Germany from the 1960s to 1980s remains underexplored. Neubau Atmospheres seeks to bridge that gap by providing an incisive analysis of East German cinematic, literary, and architectural case studies, highlighting how the modernist housing of the GDR provided a potent vehicle for mediating the emotional and social experience of its denizens. Considering how these cinematic and literary representations focalized ideas of class, gender, and age, author Stephan Ehrig makes a compelling case for viewing this engagement with the urban environment as a cultural genre in its own right.