ISBN:
0807861456
,
9780807861455
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Dissertation note:
Zugl: Stanford, Univ., Diss.
DDC:
791.4309431
Keywords:
Motion pictures Germany East
;
History
;
Motion pictures History
;
Motion pictures History
;
Germany (East)
;
Motion pictures History
;
Germany (East)
;
Deutschland
;
Film
;
Alltag
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
This work confronts the question of whether movies in the Eastern Bloc were propaganda or secretly veiled dissent. From the late 1960s East German films focused on everyday life, it could be said that filmmakers presented a static image to show an East Germany that accepted the GDR as it was
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Back to the Future; 1. Conquering the Past and Constructing the Future: The DEFA Film Studio and the Contours of East German Cultural Policy, 1946-1956; 2. The Discovery of the Ordinary: Berlin-Ecke Schönhauser and the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU; 3. A Case of Love Confused?: Slatan Dudow's Verwirrung der Liebe as a Meditation on Art and Industry; 4. Straddling the Wall: Socialist Realism Meets the Nouvelle Vague in Der geteilte Himmel; 5. The Eleventh Plenum and Das Kaninchen bin ich
Description / Table of Contents:
6. A Dream Deferred?: Spur der Steine and the Aftermath of the Eleventh Plenum7. The Triumph of the Ordinary: East German Alltag Films of the 1970s; Conclusion; Epilogue: Arrested Alltag?: East German Film from the Biermann Affair to DEFA's Final Dissolution, 1976-1993; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Selected Filmography; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
6. A Dream Deferred?: Spur der Steine and the Aftermath of the Eleventh Plenum7. The Triumph of the Ordinary: East German Alltag Films of the 1970s; Conclusion; Epilogue: Arrested Alltag?: East German Film from the Biermann Affair to DEFA's Final Dissolution, 1976-1993; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Selected Filmography; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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