Re-Imagining DEFA : : East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts / / ed. by Séan Allan, Sebastian Heiduschke.
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 festiva...
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Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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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