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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allan, Seán (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2019.
Colección:Film Europa ; v. 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: texts and contexts
  • German classical humanism and the sovietisation of culture
  • Cosmopolitanism, formalism, and fantasies of national culture
  • Experiments in modernism I: from Bitterfeld to Barlach
  • Experiments in modernism II: responses to the eleventh plenum
  • New ways of seeing: Jurgen Bottcher and the transformation of tradition
  • The dialectic of Enlightenment and the romantic turn
  • Epilogue: art, exile and the socialist imaginary.