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POSTERS OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2011

Lauren Shutt  and
Sean Tennant
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Note from the Re: Sources Editor: This is my first contribution as editor of Re:Sources, and I'm proud to join the team of editors and authors who work diligently to put together each issue of this fine journal. I vow to try and maintain the standard of quality set by my immediate predecessor, Nena Couch—a daunting task, to be sure. I hope that you will find something of use within the pages of this column and that you will consider yourself an active participant in the shaping of its future. In the November 2006 issue (47.2) of Theatre Survey, which marked the fiftieth anniversary of the American Society for Theatre Research, editor Jody Enders invited readers to “ponder anew” what constitutes a resource and to submit “untraditional proposals” for the Re:Sources column. As she explained:

Perhaps it is a document or a series of documents available for the first time when an entire collection is declassified. It could be that odd scribble somewhere that proves that, once upon a time, there really was a performance of a play that everyone else had taken to be closet drama. Maybe it is a transcription or an English translation of a document hitherto unseen, difficult to access, almost impossible to read. (165)

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Re: Sources: Beth A. Kattelman
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Theatre Survey , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , May 2011 , pp. 159 - 163
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 2011

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Endnotes

1. The study of theatre and performance that took place in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) is thriving, and this collection is a welcome addition to other primary resources from the GDR that are now available in the United States. It takes its place alongside other major collections of visual resources such as the East German Art Collection, 1946–1992 held by Stanford University and the DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft) Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.—BK

2. Nolan, Mary, “America in the German Imagination,” in Transactions, Transgressions, and Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan, ed. Fehrenbach, Heide and Poiger, Uta G. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000), 3–25, at 9Google Scholar.

3. Poiger, Uta G., Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2000), 85Google Scholar.

4. Ibid., 84.

5. Ibid., 77.