Cinema in Service of the State
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Cinema in Service of the State

Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960

  1. 406 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cinema in Service of the State

Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960

About this book

The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization, and the conservative retrenchment of the late 1950s. This volume comprehensively explores the postwar film cultures of both nations, using a "stereoscopic" approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Ranging from features to children's cinema to film festivals, the studies gathered here provide new insights into the ideological, political, and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.

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Table of contents

  1. Untitled
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Figures
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Part I
  6. Chapter 1. From Soviet Zone to 'Volksdemokratie'
  7. Chpter 2. Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945–1960
  8. Part II
  9. Chapter 3. ā€˜Veterans’ and ā€˜Dilettantes’
  10. Chapter 4. Barrandov’s Co-productions
  11. Chapter 5. Co-productions (Un)Wanted
  12. Chapter 6. No TV without Film
  13. Part III
  14. Chapter 7. Military Film Studios before 1970
  15. Chapter 8. Socialism for Sale
  16. Part IV
  17. Chapter 9. Between Magic and Education
  18. Chapter 10. Children’s Films
  19. Part V
  20. Chapter 11. Decreed Open-Mindedness
  21. Chapter 12. National, Socialist, Global
  22. Part VI
  23. Chapter 13. Cinema Cultures of Integration
  24. Chapter 14. A Decade between Resistance
  25. Chapter 15. Screening the Occupier as Liberator
  26. Filmography
  27. Index