DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture : : A Companion /

DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture : : A Companion / / ed. by Marc Silberman, Henning Wrage.

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Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a protec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Allan, Seán,
Bivens, Hunter,
Blessing, Benita,
Byg, Barton,
Fisher, Jaimey,
Hake, Sabine,
Hodgin, Nick,
Köppen, Manuel,
Pinkert, Anke,
Powell, Larson,
Prager, Brad,
Silberman, Marc,
Soldovieri, Stefan,
Wrage, Henning,
HerausgeberIn:
Silberman, Marc,
Wrage, Henning,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Companions to Contemporary German Culture , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.) :; Div. Abb.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acronyms
  • Introduction DEFA at the Crossroads: Remapping the Terrain
  • Part I. Extending the Socialist Collective
  • Chapter 1. Cinema and Socialist Modernity
  • Chapter 2. Emplotting Antifascism: Heroes, Scoundrels, Traitors
  • Chapter 3. Divided Loyalties: Technocrats and the Working Class in DEFA Films
  • Chapter 4. Representations of Art and the Artist in East German Cinema
  • Chapter 5. Family Feelings: Kinship, Gender and Social Utopia in DEFA Film
  • Part II. Expanding the Reach of Entertainment
  • Chapter 6. Not Only Entertainment: Sights and Sounds of the DEFA Music Film
  • Chapter 7. The Trail Runs Cold: DEFA’s Crime Films
  • Chapter 8. A Late Genre Fade: Utopianism and its Twilight in DEFA’s Science Fiction, Literary and Western Films
  • Chapter 9. Public Figures, Political Symbols, Famous Stars: Actors in DEFA Cinema and Beyond
  • Part III. Enlarging the Map
  • Chapter 10. ‘Wind from the East’: DEFA and Eastern European Cinema
  • Chapter 11. DEFA Children’s Films: Not Just for Children
  • Chapter 12. DEFA Films for the Youth: National Paradigms, International Influences
  • Chapter 13. Alternative Realities and Authenticity in DEFA’s Documentary Films
  • Bibliography
  • Selected Filmography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Contributors
  • Index

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