Cultural transfer and political conflicts : film festivals in the Cold War / Andreas Kötzing, Caroline Moine (eds.) ; English-language copyediting by Bill Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kötzing, Andreas, 1978- editor.

Moine, Caroline, editor.

Martin, Bill, translator.

Series:

Berichte und Studien (Dresden, Germany) ; Nr. 72.

V & R academic

Berichte und Studien, 2366-0422 ; 72

V&R Academic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film festivals--History--20th century.

Film festivals.

Cold War in motion pictures.

Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

169 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gottingen : V&R unipress, [2017].

Summary:

"Film festivals during the Cold War were fraught with the political and social tensions that dominated the world at the time. While film was becoming an increasingly powerful medium, the European festivals in particular established themselves as showcases for filmmakers and their perceptions of reality. At the same time, their prestigious, international character attracted the interest of states and private players. The history of these festivals thus sheds light not only on the films they made available to various publics, but on the cultural policies and political processes that informed their operations. Presenting new research by an international group of younger scholars, Cultural Transfer and Political Conflicts critically investigates postwar history in the context of film festivals reconstructing not only their social background and international dispensation, but also their centrality for cultural transfers between the East, the West and the South during the Cold War."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Socialist competition or window to the world? East German student films at international festivals in the context of the Cold War / Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Cultural and film policy in the Cold War : the film festivals of Oberhausen and Leipzig and German-German relations / Andreas Kötzing

The film festival as an arena for political debate : the Yugoslav black wave in Belgrade and Oberhausen / Dunka Jelenkovič

From Karlovy Vary to Cannes : Brazilian cinema novo at European film festivals in the 1960s / Regina Câmara

"Just think of the possibilities of dissemination" : the film festival policy of the European institutions in the 1950s an 1960s / Anne Bruch

"Jetzt 'Festivalt' auch die Television": television festivals in the 1960s / Yulia Yurtaeva

Scenes from a marriage : the Thessaloniki film festival between mainstream and art cinema from its beginnings to the 1970s / Maria A. Stassinopoulou

Transnational mobilization and domestic political exploitation : the 1977 Venice biennale of dissent / Stefano Pisu

The surveillance of film festivals in Switzerland : the case of Locarno International Film Festival / John Wäfler

The Belgrade FEST, or What happened when Peckinpah met Wajda / Dragan Batančev.

Notes:

"HAIT 72"--Spine.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783847105886

3847105884

OCLC:

1002808036

Publisher Number:

9783847105886

99973860910