Books by Paul Cooke

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime.

When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one of the keys to national unity. Ironically, however, this work argues that it is the realm of culture that, at times, has clearly demonstrated the divisions between East and West.

Contemporary German cinema is aimed at students of European and world cinema. It is wide-ranging, articulate and geared toward cinema and film studies. -- .

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime.