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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shen, Qinna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
DEFA.
DEFA > History.
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
Motion pictures.
Fairy tales in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Contes de fees au cinema.
Cinema > Allemagne (Est) > Histoire.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > Germany (East)
Motion pictures > Germany (East) > History.
Germany (East)
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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