Umfang:
1 online resource (191 pages)
ISBN:
9781137322326
Inhalt:
East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I East German Cinema -- 1 East German Cinema as State Institution -- 2 Reciprocities and Tension -- DEFA and the East German Entertainment Industry -- 3 A Cultural Legacy: DEFA's Afterlife -- Part II Freezes and Thaws: Canonizing DEFA -- 4 The Rubble Film, Wolfgang Staudte, and Postwar German Cinema: Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are among Us, Wolfgang Staudte, 1946) -- 5 Fairy Tales and Children's Films as Eternal Blockbusters: Die Geschichte vom Kleinen Muck (The Story of Little Mook, Wolfgang Staudte, 1953) -- 6 The Gegenwartsfilm, West Berlin as Hostile Other, and East Germany as Homeland: The Rebel Film Berlin-Ecke Schönhauser (Berlin Schönhauser Corner, Gerhard Klein, 1957) -- 7 The Birth of DEFA Genre Cinema, East German Sci-fi Films, New Technologies, and Coproduction with Eastern Europe: Der schweigende Stern (Silent Star, Kurt Maetzig, 1960) -- 8
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15 The Wendeflicks, Jörg Foth, and DEFA after Censorshi -- Letztes aus der Da-Da-eR (Latest from the Da-Da-eR, Jörg Foth, 1990) -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Sprache:
Englisch
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