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Hello, all. An off-list colleague, Barton Byg, has asked me to forward
the following three announcements. For more information on any of them,
please contact Barton directly at <[log in to unmask]> or
<[log in to unmask]>.
--Marty Norden
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Martin F. Norden
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From: BARTON B BYG <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: DEFA Film Library News
Announcing: Fall Conference, Summer Travel Stipends, Video Catalog
I. Fall 1999 Conference: "The Power of Images: Representing Germany Ten
Years After Reunification." An international, interdisciplinary
conference featuring artists, political and cultural figures and scholars
examining the role of images in structuring relations between East and West
Germans as well as between Germany and the U.S. Accompanying the
conference will be a film series, "Berlin, Divided Heaven -- From the Ice
Age to the Thaw," including a number of North American premieres. Held in
conjunction with the Northampton Film Festival and subsequently to tour
the U.S. and Canada. Also at the conference: the premiere of ICESTORM
International's video release of the documentary "The Fall fo the Wall:
The Path to German Reunification." Held on the 10th anniversary of the
fall of the Berlin Wall (4 - 6 November 1999). For more information and
registration forms contact the DEFA Film Library, address below.
II. Two Summer Study Travel Stipends for Graduate Students.
Grants from $300 to $500 for graduate student travel expenses for
research visits to the DEFA Film Library in summer 1999. Any full-time
graduate student is welcome to apply. Deadline for application 30 June 1999.
Contact DEFA Film Library for application form and
research proposal guidelines at address below.
III. If you have put off ordering East German films on video from
ICESTORM'S premiere catalog, please remember to do so by the end of your
institution's fiscal year. This will also help ensure that another full
catalog of titles with newly subtitled and restored films will be
available by fall. If you still need a catalog of the 15 films now being
made available for educational use, contact ICESTORM International at
[log in to unmask] (tel. 413-587-9334).
Many thanks,
Barton Byg
Director, DEFA Film Library
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
tel. 413-545-6681
fax 413-545-6995
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.umass.edu/defa
The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the
only archive and study center outside Europe dedicated to the study of
the cinema of Eastern Germany, especially the productions of DEFA (the
state-owned film studios of the former German Democratic Republic). Films
and videos are available for rental from the DEFA film Library under
licenses from Progress Film-Verleih GmbH and ICESTORM International LLC,
under agreements with the DEFA Foundation (Berlin).
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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite
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