Screening art : modernist aesthetics and the socialist imaginary in East German cinema /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allan, Seán (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2019.
Series:Film Europa ; v. 20.
Subjects:
Socialist realism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Germany (East) > Aesthetics.
Socialism and motion pictures > Germany (East)
Motion pictures > Germany (East) > History.
Réalisme socialiste au cinéma.
Cinéma > Allemagne (Est) > Esthétique.
Socialisme et cinéma > Allemagne (Est)
Cinéma > Allemagne (Est) > Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Aesthetics.
Socialism and motion pictures.
Germany (East)
Kunstlerfilm, DEFA, East German Films, Socialist Art, GDR.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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