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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sean AllanPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Volume: 20 ISBN: 9781785339677ISBN 10: 1785339672 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 18 February 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Texts and Contexts Chapter 1. German Classical Humanism and the Sovietisation of Culture Chapter 2. Cosmopolitanism, Formalism, and Fantasies of National Culture Chapter 3. Experiments in Modernism I: From Bitterfeld to Barlach Chapter 4. Experiments in Modernism II: Responses to the Eleventh Plenum Chapter 5. New Ways of Seeing: Jurgen Boettcher and the Transformation of Tradition Chapter 6. The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Romantic Turn Epilogue: Art, Exile and the Socialist Imaginary Filmography Bibliography IndexReviews...this book is about more than postwar socialist cinema. Allan places this moment of political filmmaking in the larger context of 21st-century cinematic history, and he does it effectively...and clearly. * Choice Allan's conceptualization, crucially, supports the established ideas of periodization while also challenging and differentiating the monopoly of these ideas through his selection of case studies and split chapters...The selection of films is a refreshing mix of the canonical and films that so far have received little or no academic attention, organized in well interwoven and thematically cross-referenced chapters. * Modern Language Review This book is recommended to whoever would like to add a new facet to their image of the DEFA: Sean Allan's monograph is the first that pays tribute to films devoted to art and aesthetics in the GDR. * Filmblatt Screening Art is deeply grounded in larger cultural questions that have had little discussion in English-language scholarship. Allan's efforts, both the archival work and the visual analysis, are impressive, and his comprehensive treatment of the most significant cultural-political debates and policies of the GDR is balanced and engaging. * Heather E. Mathews, Pacific Lutheran University This is an accessible and fascinating account of the ways in which East German filmmakers made use of art and artists over more than forty years of film production. Allan proves a knowledgeable and reliable guide to the genre, showing how developments in the Kunstlerfilm were subject to paradigm shifts in art and aesthetics in the GDR. * Nick Hodgin, University of Cardiff Screening Art is deeply grounded in larger cultural questions that have had little discussion in English-language scholarship. Allan's efforts, both the archival work and the visual analysis, are impressive, and his comprehensive treatment of the most significant cultural-political debates and policies of the GDR is balanced and engaging. Heather E. Mathews, Pacific Lutheran University Author InformationSean Allan is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. His publications include the co-edited volumes Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (with Sebastian Heiduschke, 2016) and DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992 (with John Sandford, 1999). He has published widely on the films of Konrad Wolf, Kurt Maetzig and Jurgen Boettcher, and on East German identity in post-unification cinema. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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