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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Part I East German Cinema -- 1 East German Cinema as State Institution -- 2 Reciprocities and Tensions: DEFA and the East German Entertainment Industry -- 3 A Cultural Legacy: DEFA's Afterlife -- Part II Freezes and Thaws: Canonizing DEFA -- 4 The Rubble Film, Wolfgang Staudte, and Postwar German Cinema: Die Mrder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are among Us, Wolfgang Staudte, 1946) -- 5 Fairy Tales and Children's Films as Eternal Blockbusters: Die Geschichte vom Kleinen Muck (The Story of Little Mook, Wolfgang Staudte, 1953) -- 6 The Gegenwartsfilm, West Berlin as Hostile Other, and East Germany as Homeland: The Rebel Film Berlin--Ecke Schnhauser (Berlin Scẖnhauser Corner, Gerhard Klein, 1957) -- 7 The Birth of DEFA Genre Cinema, East German Sci-fi Films, New Technologies, and Coproduction with Eastern Europe: Der schweigende Stern (Silent Star, Kurt Maetzig, 1960) -- 8 Film Censorship, the East German Nouvelle Vague, and the "Rabbit Films": Das Kaninchen bin ich (The Rabbit Is Me, Kurt Maetzig, 1965) -- 9 Renegade Films, DEFA Musicals, and the Genre Cinema: Heißer Sommer (Hot Summer, Joachim Hasler, 1968) -- 10 More Genre Cinema, the "Red Western," and Stardom in East Germany: Apachen (Apaches, Gottfried Kolditz, 1973) -- 11 Gender, Class, and Sexuality: Ending Taboos in Die Legende von Paul und Paula (The Legend of Paul and Paula, Heiner Carow, 1973) -- 12 DEFA and the Holocaust, the Antifascist Legacy, and International Acclaim: Jakob der Lügner (Jacob the Liar, Frank Beyer, 1974) -- 13 The Women's Film, Konrad Wolf, and DEFA after the "Biermann Affair": Solo Sunny (Konrad Wolf, 1980) -- 14 Passed by History: Dystopia, Parable, and Bookend: Die Architekten (The Architects, Peter Kahane, 1990) -- 15 The Wendeflicks, Jorg Foth, and DEFA after Censorship: Letztes aus der Da-Da-eR (Latest from the Da-Da-eR, Jorg Foth, 1990) |
| Summary |
East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), produced a breadth and depth of films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, science fiction films, musicals, melodramas, spy thrillers, women's films, fairy tales, and children's films. This book covers the entire range of filmmaking under the DEFA logo, from their beginnings in the Soviet Occupied Zone through unification and shows their continuing impact in contemporary culture. East German cinema offers the opportunity to see the complete picture of German film beyond Murnau, Lang, von Sternberg, and Fassbinder to equally important East German directors such as Frank Beyer, Wolfgang Staudte, Kurt Maetzig, and Konrad Wolf. In his analysis of twelve representative films produced between 1946 and 1990, Heiduschke illustrates the complex nature of DEFA's monopoly affected by domestic, international, and transnational dynamics and directs the attention to an influential, but often forgotten part of German film that bridged the cinemas of eastern and western Europe during the Cold War in surprising ways |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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DEFA -- History
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DEFA fast |
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Motion picture industry -- Germany (East) -- History
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Motion pictures -- Germany (East) -- History
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Films, cinema -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- East Germany, DDR.
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Cinema industry -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- East Germany, DDR.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
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Performing Arts.
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Motion picture industry
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Motion pictures
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Germany (East)
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137322326 |
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1137322322 |
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1306093996 |
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9781306093996 |
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9781137322302 |
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1137322306 |
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9781137322319 |
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1137322314 |
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