Re-imagining DEFA : East German cinema in its national and transnational contexts / edited by Sean Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allan, Seán, editor.

Heiduschke, Sebastian, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DEFA--History.

DEFA.

Motion picture industry--Germany (East)--History.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Germany (East)--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : berghahn, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.”

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION Re-imagining East German Cinema

PART I INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGY

CHAPTER 1 The State-Owned Cinema Industry and Its Audience

CHAPTER 2 History and Subjectivity: The Evolution of DEFA Film Music

CHAPTER 3 ‘Fatal Attractions’ Modernist Set Design and the East–West Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s

PART II NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS

CHAPTER 4 DEFA and the Legacy of ‘Film Europe’ Prestige, Institutional Exchange and Film Co-Productions

CHAPTER 5 Betting on Entertainment: The Cold War Scandal of Spielbank-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957]

CHAPTER 6 ‘Operación Silencio’ Studio H&S’s Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema

CHAPTER 7 Deconstructing Orientalism: DEFA’s Fictions of East Asia

CHAPTER 8 Transnational Stardom: DEFA’s Management of Dean Reed

PART III GENRE AND POPULAR CINEMA

CHAPTER 9 Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film

CHAPTER 10 Dreams of ‘Cosmic Culture’ in Der schweigende Stern [The Silent Star, 1960]

CHAPTER 11 The DEFA Indianerfilm: Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic

CHAPTER 12 Defining Socialist Children’s Films, Defining Socialist Childhoods

PART IV DEFA’S LEGACY

CHAPTER 13 DEFA’s Last Gasp: Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking

CHAPTER 14 DEFA’s Antifascist Myth Revisited: KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle [KLK calling PTX – The Red Orchestra, 1971]

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)

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-470-4

1-78533-106-X

OCLC:

966429562