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Oct 2, 2017 · Ostalgie is a German term used for describing a nostalgic mood for East Germany. In Goodbye, Lenin Wolfgang Becker expresses the ostalgie emotion by deconstructing the historical event in an ironic way. Sigmund Jähn, the former GDR astronaut who is the first German in space, has been a taxi driver after unification.
May 13, 2009 · Wolfgang Becker's film Good Bye Lenin! has been touted as the most representative example of ostalgie, and is used here as a text to examine the complex questions about looking back on everyday life during communism's fall. Through its use of nostalgic themes, the film simultaneously embraces and derides the Western values that became an indelible part of the post-1989 landscape, and thus ...
- Timothy Barney
- 2009
May 19, 2011 · Using Wolfgang Becker’s film Goodbye Lenin!, this paper analyses the phenomenon of Ostalgia through the lenses of Jean Baudrillard’s theories on simulation and simulacra. It argues that Becker’s
This article examines the representation of the GDR past and the treatment of Ostalgie in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! and Hannes Stöhr's Berlin Is in Germany, arguing that the films evidence a split in recent German fiction films between nostalgic constructions of the past, on the one hand, and postnational views of the present, on the other.
- Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
This article examines the representation of the GDR past and the treatment of Ostalgie in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! and Hannes Stöhr's Berlin Is in Germany, arguing that the films evidence a split in recent German fiction films between nostalgic constructions of the past, on the one hand, and postnational views of the present, on the other.
May 19, 2011 · Using Wolfgang Becker’s film Good Bye Lenin!, this paper analyses the phenomenon of Ostalgia through the lens of Jean Baudrillard’s theories on simulation and simulacra. It argues that Becker’s film deconstructs the nostalgic transformation and commodification of the socialist national past in the post-communist age by exposing the deep collective needs to which this phenomenon responds.
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May 17, 2023 · This paper mainly focus on the presentation of Ostalgie in the film Goodbye, Lenin!. Goodbye, Lenin! is a German tragicomedy directed by Wolfgang Becker, and is popular for its strong historical ...
