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Author:   Séan Allan ,  Sebastian Heiduschke
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781785331053

ISBN 10:   1785331051
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Taken together, the essays [by a diverse group of international scholars] create a coherent whole representing the richness of film production before, during, and after DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft), the state-owned East German film production company at the loose center of this [useful and compelling] collection. Choice

This is an excellent book that includes among its contributors many of the most respected scholars on DEFA and East German cinema. There is an impressive array of critical and historical approaches on offer here, reflecting the breadth of scholarship on the subject and relating GDR film to a whole array of other areas and disciplines from Third Cinema to science fiction. * Hunter Bivens, University of California, Santa Cruz Looking back from what is now 25 years after reunification, this fine and original collection of essays represents a new phase in scholarship on East German films and filmmakers, one that builds on the achievements of past research while asking valuable new questions. * Brad Prager, University of Missouri

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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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