Screening Art: Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema

With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural heri...

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Main Author: Allan, Seán (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2019]
Series:Film Europa 20
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
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Summary:With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural heritage. Spanning newsreels, documentaries, and feature films, Screening Art is the first full-length investigation into a genre that has been largely overlooked in studies of DEFA, the state-owned Eastern German film studio. As it shows, "artist-films" played an essential role in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in postwar Europe
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (302 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785339684
DOI:10.1515/9781785339684