Four-Color Communism : : Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic / / Sean Eedy.

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering official ideology so as to develop the “socialist personality” of young people and generate enthusiasm for state...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Illustrations --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Abbreviations and Terms --   |t Introduction. Comics at the Intersection of State Power and Childhood --   |t 1. Comics and the Crisis of Kultur in the SED State --   |t 2. State Power and the East German Zeitgeist --   |t 3. Power, Eigensinn, and the Construction of Space through Comics --   |t 4. Escape, Escapism, and the Cultural Imperialism of Comic Book Travel in Mosaik and Atze --   |t 5. Western Influence, Popular Taste, and the Limitations of the FDJ’s Publishing Regime --   |t Conclusion. Contesting SED Power in the Comic Book Space --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering official ideology so as to develop the “socialist personality” of young people and generate enthusiasm for state socialism. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings in and projected their own desires upon them. Four-Color Communism gives a lively account of East German comics from both perspectives, showing how the perceived freedoms they embodied created expectations that ultimately limited the regime’s efforts to bring readers into the fold. 
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