Legal Tender

by John Griffith Urang

At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801476534
• ISBN13: 9780801476532
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher