Author: Séan Allan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178533106X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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.”
Re-Imagining DEFA
Author: Séan Allan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178533106X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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.”
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178533106X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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.”
East German Cinema
Author: S. Heiduschke
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137322322
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137322322
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films.
East German Film and the Holocaust
Author: Elizabeth Ward
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789207487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner – a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789207487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner – a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political.
DEFA
Author: Seán Allan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571817532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The state-sponsored Deutsche Film Anstalt (DEFA) was responsible for film production in the former GDR from 1946 until 1992. This volume traces the development of DEFA and East German cinema.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571817532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The state-sponsored Deutsche Film Anstalt (DEFA) was responsible for film production in the former GDR from 1946 until 1992. This volume traces the development of DEFA and East German cinema.
Film and Memory in East Germany
Author: Anke Pinkert
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253351030
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Rethinks the politics of public memory in East German film
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253351030
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Rethinks the politics of public memory in East German film
East German Cinema
Author: S. Heiduschke
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137322322
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137322322
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films.
DEFA After East Germany
Author: Brigitta B. Wagner
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571135820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571135820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Hollywood Behind the Wall
Author: Daniela Berghahn
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719061721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Daniela Berghahn demonstrates that East German cinema occupies an ambivalent position between German national cinema on the one hand and East European and Soviet cinema on the other. The book includes a wide-ranging exploration of post-unification cinemafrom East Germany.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719061721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Daniela Berghahn demonstrates that East German cinema occupies an ambivalent position between German national cinema on the one hand and East European and Soviet cinema on the other. The book includes a wide-ranging exploration of post-unification cinemafrom East Germany.
Gender and Sexuality in East German Film
Author: Kyle Frackman
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571139923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres and in social, political, and cultural context.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571139923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres and in social, political, and cultural context.
East Asian-German Cinema
Author: Joanne Miyang Cho
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000461386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This is the first edited volume dedicated to the study of East Asian-German cinema. Its coverage ranges from 1919 to the present, a period which has witnessed an unprecedented degree of global entanglement between Germany and East Asia. In analyzing this hybrid cinema, this volume employs a transnational approach, which highlights the nations’ cinematic encounters and entanglements. It reveals both German perceptions of East Asia and East Asian perceptions of Germany, through analysis of works by both German directors and East Asian/East Asian-German directors. It is hoped that this volume will not only accelerate cross-cultural exchange, but also provide a wider perspective that helps film scholars to see the broader contexts in which these films are produced. It introduces multiple compelling topics, not just immigration, multiculturalism, and exile, but also Japonisme, children’s literature, musical modernity, media hybridity, gender representation, urban space, Cold War divisions, and national identity. It addresses several genres—feature films, essay films, and documentary films. Lastly, by embracing three East Asian cinemas in one volume, this volume serves as an excellent introduction for German cinema students and scholars. It will appeal to international and interdisciplinary audiences, as its contributors represent multiple disciplines and four world regions.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000461386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This is the first edited volume dedicated to the study of East Asian-German cinema. Its coverage ranges from 1919 to the present, a period which has witnessed an unprecedented degree of global entanglement between Germany and East Asia. In analyzing this hybrid cinema, this volume employs a transnational approach, which highlights the nations’ cinematic encounters and entanglements. It reveals both German perceptions of East Asia and East Asian perceptions of Germany, through analysis of works by both German directors and East Asian/East Asian-German directors. It is hoped that this volume will not only accelerate cross-cultural exchange, but also provide a wider perspective that helps film scholars to see the broader contexts in which these films are produced. It introduces multiple compelling topics, not just immigration, multiculturalism, and exile, but also Japonisme, children’s literature, musical modernity, media hybridity, gender representation, urban space, Cold War divisions, and national identity. It addresses several genres—feature films, essay films, and documentary films. Lastly, by embracing three East Asian cinemas in one volume, this volume serves as an excellent introduction for German cinema students and scholars. It will appeal to international and interdisciplinary audiences, as its contributors represent multiple disciplines and four world regions.