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

Title
  1. Screening art : modernist aesthetics and the socialist imaginary in East German cinema / Seán Allan.
Published by
  1. New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
  2. ©2019
Author
  1. Allan, Seán

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Description
  1. 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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 heritage. Spanning newsreels, documentaries, and features, Screening Art is the first full-length investigation into a genre that has often been overlooked in studies of DEFA, the state-owned Eastern German film studio. As it shows, "art films" in fact played an essential role in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in postwar Europe.
Series statement
  1. Film Europa: German cinema in an international context ; volume 20
Uniform title
  1. Film Europa ; v. 20.
Subject
  1. Socialist realism in motion pictures
  2. Motion pictures > Germany (East) > Aesthetics
  3. Socialism and motion pictures > Germany (East)
  4. Motion pictures > Germany (East) > History
  5. Motion pictures
  6. Motion pictures > Aesthetics
  7. Socialism and motion pictures
  8. Germany (East)
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. MFL 19-2735
Note
  1. "Berghahn on film"
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-282) and index.
  2. Includes filmography (pages [263]-266).
Author
  1. Allan, Seán, author.
Title
  1. Screening art : modernist aesthetics and the socialist imaginary in East German cinema / Seán Allan.
Publisher
  1. New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Copyright date
  1. ©2019
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Film Europa: German cinema in an international context ; volume 20
  2. Film Europa ; v. 20.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-282) and index.
  2. Includes filmography (pages [263]-266).
Other form:
  1. Online version: Allan, Seán. Screening art. New York : Berghahn Books, 2019 9781785339684 (DLC) 2018060646
LCCN
  1. 2018053516
ISBN
  1. 9781785339677 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  2. 1785339672 hardcover ; alkaline paper
Research call number
  1. MFL 19-2735
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