Triumph of the Ordinary Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989

Name: Triumph of the Ordinary Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989
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ISBN: 9780807853856

ISBN-10: 0807853852

ISBN-13: 9780807853856

Edition: 2002

Authors: Joshua Feinstein

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Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent? In the first major study in English of East German film, Joshua Feinstein argues that the answer to this question is decidedly complex. Drawing on newly opened archives as well as interviews with East German directors, actors, and state officials, Feinstein traces how the cinematic depiction of East Germany changed in response to national political developments and transnational cultural trends such as the spread of television and rock 'n' roll. Celluloid images fed a larger sense of East German identity, an identity that persists today, more than a decade after German reunification. But even as they attempted to satisfy…

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List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: Back to the Future



Conquering the Past and Constructing the Future: The DEFA Film Studio and the Contours of East German Cultural Policy, 1946-1956



The Discovery of the Ordinary: Berlin-Ecke Schonhauser and the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU



A Case of Love Confused?: Slatan Dudow's Verwirrung der Liebe as a Meditation on Art and Industry



Straddling the Wall: Socialist Realism Meets the Nouvelle Vague in Der geteilte Himmel



The Eleventh Plenum and Das Kaninchen bin ich



A Dream Deferred?: Spur der Steine and the Aftermath of the Eleventh Plenum



The Triumph of the Ordinary: East German Alltag Films of the 1970s


Conclusion


Epilogue. Arrested Alltag?: East German Film from the Biermann Affair to DEFA's Final Dissolution, 1976-1993


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Selected Filmography


Index