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Screening art : modernist aesthetics and the socialist imaginary in East German cinema
- Title
- Screening art : modernist aesthetics and the socialist imaginary in East German cinema / Seán Allan.
- Author
- Allan, Seán
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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
- Film Europa: German cinema in an international context ; volume 20
- Uniform Title
- Film Europa ; v. 20.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "Berghahn on film"
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-282) and index.
- Includes filmography (pages [263]-266).
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 19-2735
- ISBN
- 9781785339677
- 1785339672
- LCCN
- 2018053516
- OCLC
- 1044548469
- Author
- Allan, Seán, author.
- Title
- Screening art : modernist aesthetics and the socialist imaginary in East German cinema / Seán Allan.
- Publisher
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Film Europa: German cinema in an international context ; volume 20Film Europa ; v. 20.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-282) and index.Includes filmography (pages [263]-266).
- Other Form:
- Online version: Allan, Seán. Screening art. New York : Berghahn Books, 2019 9781785339684 (DLC) 2018060646
- Research Call Number
- MFL 19-2735