Re-Imagining Defa : East German Cinema In Its National And Transnational Contexts

RE-IMAGINING DEFA -- RE-IMAGINING DEFA - EAST GERMAN CINEMA IN ITS NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS - Edited by Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION - Re-imagining East German Cinema - Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke -- PART I - INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGY -- CHAPTER 1 - The State-Owned Cinema Industry and Its Audience - Rosemary Stott -- CHAPTER 2 - History and Subjectivity - The Evolution of DEFA Film Music - Larson Powell -- CHAPTER 3 - 'Fatal Attractions' - Modernist Set Design and the East-West Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s - Annette Dorgerloh -- PART II - NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS -- CHAPTER 4 - DEFA and the Legacy of 'Film Europe' - Prestige, Institutional Exchange and Film Co-Productions - Mariana Ivanova -- CHAPTER 5 - Betting on Entertainment - The Cold War Scandal of Spielbank-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957] - Stefan Soldovieri -- CHAPTER 6 - 'Operación Silencio' - Studio H&S's Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema - Dennis Hanlon -- CHAPTER 7 Deconstructing Orientalism - DEFA's Fictions of East Asia - Qinna Shen -- CHAPTER 8 - Transnational Stardom - DEFA's Management of Dean Reed - Seán Allan -- PART III - GENRE AND POPULAR CINEMA -- CHAPTER 9 - Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film - Sabine Hake -- CHAPTER 10 - Dreams of 'Cosmic Culture' in Der schweigende Stern [The Silent Star, 1960] - Sonja Fritzsche -- CHAPTER 11 - The DEFA Indianerfilm - Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic - Evan Torner -- CHAPTER 12 - Defining Socialist Children's Films, Defining Socialist Childhoods - Benita Blessing -- PART IV - DEFA'S LEGACY -- CHAPTER 13 - DEFA's Last Gasp - Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking - Nick Hodgin

• | Author: Seán Allan, Sebastian Heiduschke, Séan Allan
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 366 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1785331078
• | ISBN-13: 9781785331077