Re-Imagining DEFA
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Re-Imagining DEFA

East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts

  1. 378 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Re-Imagining DEFA

East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts

About this book

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."

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Yes, you can access Re-Imagining DEFA by Séan Allan,Sebastian Heiduschke, Séan Allan, Sebastian Heiduschke in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & German History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781785331053
eBook ISBN
9781785331060
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
German History

Table of contents

  1. RE-IMAGINING DEFA
  2. RE-IMAGINING DEFA - EAST GERMAN CINEMA IN ITS NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS - Edited by Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. INTRODUCTION - Re-imagining East German Cinema - Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke
  7. PART I - INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGY
  8. CHAPTER 1 - The State-Owned Cinema Industry and Its Audience - Rosemary Stott
  9. CHAPTER 2 - History and Subjectivity - The Evolution of DEFA Film Music - Larson Powell
  10. CHAPTER 3 - ‘Fatal Attractions’ - Modernist Set Design and the East–West Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s - Annette Dorgerloh
  11. PART II - NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS
  12. CHAPTER 4 - DEFA and the Legacy of ‘Film Europe’ - Prestige, Institutional Exchange and Film Co-Productions - Mariana Ivanova
  13. CHAPTER 5 - Betting on Entertainment - The Cold War Scandal of Spielbank-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957] - Stefan Soldovieri
  14. CHAPTER 6 - ‘Operación Silencio’ - Studio H&S’s Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema - Dennis Hanlon
  15. CHAPTER 7 Deconstructing Orientalism - DEFA’s Fictions of East Asia - Qinna Shen
  16. CHAPTER 8 - Transnational Stardom - DEFA’s Management of Dean Reed - Seán Allan
  17. PART III - GENRE AND POPULAR CINEMA
  18. CHAPTER 9 - Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film - Sabine Hake
  19. CHAPTER 10 - Dreams of ‘Cosmic Culture’ in Der schweigende Stern [The Silent Star, 1960] - Sonja Fritzsche
  20. CHAPTER 11 - The DEFA Indianerfilm - Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic - Evan Torner
  21. CHAPTER 12 - Defining Socialist Children’s Films, Defining Socialist Childhoods - Benita Blessing
  22. PART IV - DEFA’S LEGACY
  23. CHAPTER 13 - DEFA’s Last Gasp - Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking - Nick Hodgin
  24. CHAPTER 14 - DEFA’s Antifascist Myth Revisited KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle [KLK calling PTX – The Red Orchestra, 1971] - Sebastian Heiduschke
  25. 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
  26. Select Bibliography
  27. Index