Re-Imagining DEFA : : East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts / / ed. by Séan Allan, Sebastian Heiduschke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Seán,; Berghahn, Daniela,; Blessing, Benita,; Dorgerloh, Annette,; Fritzsche, Sonja,; Hake, Sabine,; Hanlon, Dennis,; Heiduschke, Sebastian,; Hodgin, Nick,; Ivanova, Mariana,; Powell, Larson,; Shen, Qinna,; Soldovieri, Stefan,; Stott, Rosemary,; Torner, Evan,
• HerausgeberIn: Allan, Séan,; Heiduschke, Sebastian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)

By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading international experts take stock of this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research, one that considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION Re-imagining East German Cinema -- PART I INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGY -- CHAPTER 1 The State-Owned Cinema Industry and Its Audience -- CHAPTER 2 History and Subjectivity: The Evolution of DEFA Film Music -- CHAPTER 3 ‘Fatal Attractions’ Modernist Set Design and the East–West Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s -- PART II NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS -- CHAPTER 4 DEFA and the Legacy of ‘Film Europe’ Prestige, Institutional Exchange and Film Co-Productions -- CHAPTER 5 Betting on Entertainment: The Cold War Scandal of Spielbank-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957] -- CHAPTER 6 ‘Operación Silencio’ Studio H&S’s Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema -- CHAPTER 7 Deconstructing Orientalism: DEFA’s Fictions of East Asia -- CHAPTER 8 Transnational Stardom: DEFA’s Management of Dean Reed -- PART III GENRE AND POPULAR CINEMA -- CHAPTER 9 Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film -- CHAPTER 10 Dreams of ‘Cosmic Culture’ in Der schweigende Stern [The Silent Star, 1960] -- CHAPTER 11 The DEFA Indianerfilm: Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic -- CHAPTER 12 Defining Socialist Children’s Films, Defining Socialist Childhoods -- PART IV DEFA’S LEGACY -- CHAPTER 13 DEFA’s Last Gasp: Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking -- CHAPTER 14 DEFA’s Antifascist Myth Revisited: KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle [KLK calling PTX – The Red Orchestra, 1971] -- CHAPTER 15 DEFA’s Afterimages: Looking back at the East from the West in Das Leben der Anderen [The Lives of Others, 2006] and Barbara (2012) -- Select Bibliography -- Index