The Politics of Magic : DEFA Fairy-Tale Films /
From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films b...
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Detroit, MI :
Wayne State University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Tales of the time: an overview of DEFA fairy-tale films
- Inheriting the humanist tradition: subversion of magic in early fairy tale models
- Entangled in the Cold War: tales of struggle and political allegories
- Love is real wealth: money, work, and the Cold War
- Ambiguity between Conformism and Resistance: slave-language and political satires
- A sigh of the times: tales of civil rights, peace, and ecology
- Conclusion: (Socialits) countertales: disenchantment and (Re)enchantment in DEFA fairy tales.