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Totalitarianism on screen : the art and politics of The lives of others / edited by Carl Eric Scott and F. Flagg Taylor IV.
Van Pelt Library PN1997.L383 T68 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leben der Anderen (Motion picture).
- Totalitarianism and motion pictures.
- Das leben der anderen (GG, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006).
- Local Subjects:
- Das leben der anderen (GG, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006).
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
- Summary:
- This title assembles top scholars to analyse 'The Lives of Others' from philosophical and political perspectives. The essays in this book confront the nature and legacy of East Germany's totalitarian government and outline the reasons why such regimes endure.
- Contents:
- Truth and Dissent
- Post-totalitarianism in The Lives of Others / F. Flagg Taylor IV
- What Is a Dissident? The Travails of the Intellectuals in The Lives of Others / Lauren Weiner
- Art and Politics
- Communist Moral Corruption and the Redemptive Power of Art / Carl Eric Scott
- Long Day's Journey into Brecht: The Ambivalent Politics of The Lives of Others / Paul A. Cantor
- The Tragic Ambiguity, or Ambiguous Tragedy, of Christa-Maria Sieland / Dirk R. Johnson
- The Lives of Others and Other Films
- The Lives of Others, Good Bye Lenin! and the Power of Everydayness / James F. Pontuso
- On the Impossibility of Withdrawal: Life in the Gray Zone / Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz
- The Lives of Others and the History of the GDR
- Fiction or Lived History? On the Question of the Credibility of The Lives of Others / Manfred Wilke
- The Ghosts Are Leaving the Shadows / Wolf Biermann
- Against Forgetting: A Conversation with Joachim Gauck / Paul Hockenos
- East German Totalitarianism: A Warning from History / Peter Grieder
- The Stasi in the GDR
- The Stasi: An Overview / Jens Gieseke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813144986
- 0813144981
- OCLC:
- 858901618
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