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."…mehr
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."Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Séan Allan is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He is co-editor (with John Sandford) of DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992 (1999), and has published widely on the films of Konrad Wolf, Kurt Maetzig and Jürgen Böttcher, and on East German identity in post-unification cinema.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-Imagining East German Cinema Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke PART I: INSTITUTIONS & IDEOLOGY Chapter 1. The State-Owned Cinema Industry and Its Audience Rosemary Stott Chapter 2. History and Subjectivity. The Evolution of DEFA Film Music Larson Powell Chapter 3. 'Fatal Attractions'. Modernist Set Design and the East-West Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s Annette Dorgerloh PART II: NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS Chapter 4. DEFA and the Legacy of Film Europe. Prestige, Institutional Exchange, and Film Co-Productions Mariana Ivanova Chapter 5. Betting on Entertainment. The Cold War Scandal of Spielbank-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957] Stefan Soldovieri Chapter 6. 'Operación Silencio'. Studio H&S's Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema Dennis Hanlon Chapter 7. Deconstructing Orientalism. DEFA's Fictions of East Asia Qinna Shen Chapter 8. Transnational Stardom. DEFA's Management of Dean Reed Seán Allan PART III: GENRE & POPULAR CINEMA Chapter 9. Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film Sabine Hake Chapter 10. Dreams of 'Cosmic Culture' in Der schweigende Stern [The Silent Star, 1960] Sonja Fritzsche Chapter 11. The DEFA Indianerfilm. Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic Evan Torner Chapter 12. Defining Socialist Children's Films, Defining Socialist Childhoods Benita Blessing PART IV: DEFA'S LEGACY Chapter 13. DEFA's Last Gasp. Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking Nick Hodgin Chapter 14. KLK an PTX. Die Rote Kapelle. DEFA's Antifascist Myth Revisited Sebastian Heiduschke 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) Daniela Berghahn Bibliography
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-Imagining East German Cinema Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke PART I: INSTITUTIONS & IDEOLOGY Chapter 1. The State-Owned Cinema Industry and Its Audience Rosemary Stott Chapter 2. History and Subjectivity. The Evolution of DEFA Film Music Larson Powell Chapter 3. 'Fatal Attractions'. Modernist Set Design and the East-West Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s Annette Dorgerloh PART II: NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS Chapter 4. DEFA and the Legacy of Film Europe. Prestige, Institutional Exchange, and Film Co-Productions Mariana Ivanova Chapter 5. Betting on Entertainment. The Cold War Scandal of Spielbank-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957] Stefan Soldovieri Chapter 6. 'Operación Silencio'. Studio H&S's Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema Dennis Hanlon Chapter 7. Deconstructing Orientalism. DEFA's Fictions of East Asia Qinna Shen Chapter 8. Transnational Stardom. DEFA's Management of Dean Reed Seán Allan PART III: GENRE & POPULAR CINEMA Chapter 9. Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film Sabine Hake Chapter 10. Dreams of 'Cosmic Culture' in Der schweigende Stern [The Silent Star, 1960] Sonja Fritzsche Chapter 11. The DEFA Indianerfilm. Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic Evan Torner Chapter 12. Defining Socialist Children's Films, Defining Socialist Childhoods Benita Blessing PART IV: DEFA'S LEGACY Chapter 13. DEFA's Last Gasp. Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking Nick Hodgin Chapter 14. KLK an PTX. Die Rote Kapelle. DEFA's Antifascist Myth Revisited Sebastian Heiduschke 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) Daniela Berghahn Bibliography
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