Cinema in Service of the State : : Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 / / ed. by Lars Karl, Pavel Skopal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Arenas, Fernando Ramos,; Bathrick, David,; Beutelschmidt, Thomas,; Bláhová, Jindřiška,; Ivanova, Mariana,; Karl, Lars,; Knapík, Jiří,; Kunakhovich, Kyrill,; Kötzing, Andreas,; Niemeyer, Christin,; Skopal, Pavel,; Skupa, Lukáš,; Szczepanik, Petr,; Česálková, Lucie,; Šmidrkal, Václav,
• HerausgeberIn: Karl, Lars,; Skopal, Pavel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Film Europa ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)

The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization, and the conservative retrenchment of the late 1950s. This volume comprehensively explores the postwar film cultures of both nations, using a “stereoscopic” approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Ranging from features to children’s cinema to film festivals, the studies gathered here provide new insights into the ideological, political, and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Cultural Policy and Cinema -- Chapter 1 From Soviet Zone to Volksdemokratie: The Politics of Film Culture in the GDR, 1945–1960 -- Chapter 2 Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945–1960 -- Part II Production and Co-production -- Chapter 3 ‘Veterans’ and ‘Dilettantes’ Film Production Culture vis-à-vis Top- Down Political Changes, 1945–1962 -- Chapter 4 Barrandov’s Co-productions: The Clumsy Way to Ideological Control, International Competitiveness and Technological Improvement -- Chapter 5 Co-productions (Un)Wanted: 1950s East/West German Film Collaborations and the Impact of Sovietization on DEFA’s Prestige Agenda -- Chapter 6 No TV without Film: Production Relations between the DEFA Studios and Deutscher Fernsehfunk -- Part III Nonfictional Cinema -- Chapter 7 Military Film Studios before 1970 Between Cinematic Avant-Garde and Films on Command -- Chapter 8 Socialism for Sale: Czechoslovakia’s Krátký film, Custom- Made Film Production and the Promotion of Consumer Culture in the 1950s -- Part IV Children’s Cinema -- Chapter 9 Between Magic and Education: The First Fairy Tale Films in the GDR -- Chapter 10 Children’s Films: Between Education, Art and Industry -- Part V Film Festivals -- Chapter 11 Decreed Open-Mindedness: The Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Festival in the 1960s as an Example of the Self- Representation of the East German State -- Chapter 12 National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946–1956 -- Part VI Distribution and Reception -- Chapter 13 Cinema Cultures of Integration: Film Distribution and Exhibition in the GDR and Czechoslovakia from the Perspective of Two Local Cases, 1945–1960 -- Chapter 14 A Decade between Resistance and Adaptation: The Leipzig University Film Club (1956–1966) -- Chapter 15 Screening the Occupier as Liberator: Soviet War Films in the SBZ and the GDR, 1945–1965 -- Filmography -- Index