Cowboys : East Germany, rebels of the Vogtland /
Filmmaker and visual anthropologist Eric O'Connell explores a subculture of cowboys in the former East Germany who have adopted and adapted the lifestyle of the American Western Cowboy. The cowboy represents ideals of freedom and individualism in this subculture that developed behind "the...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles, CA :
University of Southern California,
2010
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| Summary: | Filmmaker and visual anthropologist Eric O'Connell explores a subculture of cowboys in the former East Germany who have adopted and adapted the lifestyle of the American Western Cowboy. The cowboy represents ideals of freedom and individualism in this subculture that developed behind "the Iron Curtain." Emerging from the shadows of communism in 1989, the cowboy took on a new face, representing for the East Germans many good things from the communist period, such as helping one's neighbor and the simple pleasures of country life represented by family, attachment to the land, and to animals. Atmospheric, observational and ethnographic, the story is told as much in images as in the skillful intertwining of varied interviews. Characters who have lived under both communism and capitalism reveal, in a visually rich film, why "the cowboy thing" is so symbolic for people of the former East. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed April 18, 2018). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (36 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:35:55 |
| Language: | In English. |
