Cinema in service of the state : perspectives on film culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
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Cinema in service of the state : perspectives on film culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
（Film Europa : German cinema in an international context, v. 18）（Berghahn on film）
Berghahn, 2015
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Description
The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization, and the conservative retrenchment of the late 1950s. This volume comprehensively explores the postwar film cultures of both nations, using a "stereoscopic" approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Ranging from features to children's cinema to film festivals, the studies gathered here provide new insights into the ideological, political, and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: CULTURAL POLICY AND CINEMA
Chapter 1. From Soviet Zone to Volksdemokratie: The Politics of Film Culture in the GDR, 1945-1960
David Bathrick
Chapter 2. Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945-1960
Jiri Knapik
PART II: PRODUCTION AND CO-PRODUCTION
Chapter 3. "Veterans" and "Dilettantes": Film Production Culture vis-a-vis Top-down Political Changes, 1945-1962
Petr Szczepanik
Chapter 4. Barrandov's Co-Productions: The Clumsy Way to Ideological Control, International Competitiveness, and Technological Improvement
Pavel Skopal
Chapter 5. Co-Productions (Un)Wanted: 1950s East/West German Film Collaborations and the Impact of Sovietisation on DEFA's Prestige Agenda
Mariana Ivanova
Chapter 6. No TV without Film: Production Relations between the DEFA Studios and Deutscher Fernsehfunk
Thomas Beutelschmidt
PART III: NON-FICTIONAL CINEMA
Chapter 7. Military Film Studios before 1970: Between Cinematic Avant-Garde and Films on Command
Vaclav Smidrkal
Chapter 8. Socialism for Sale: Czechoslovak Kratky film, Custom-Made Film Production, and the Promotion of Consumer Culture in the 1950s
Lucie Cesalkova
PART IV: CHILDREN'S CINEMA
Chapter 9. Between Magic and Education: the First Fairy Tale Films in the GDR
Christin Niemeyer
Chapter 10. Children's Films: Between Education, Art and Industry
Lukas Skupa
PART V: FILM FESTIVALS
Chapter 11. Decreed Open-Mindedness: The Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Festival in the 1960s as an example of the self-representation of the East German State
Andreas Koetzing
Chapter 12. National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946-1956
Jindriska Blahova
PART VI: DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION
Chapter 13. Cinema Cultures of Integration: Film Distribution and Exhibition in the GDR and Czechoslovakia from the Perspective of Two Local Cases, 1945-1960
Kyrill Kunakhovich and Pavel Skopal
Chapter 14. A Decade between Resistance and Adaptation: The Leipzig University Film Club (1956-1966)
Fernando Ramos Arenas
Chapter 15. Screening the Occupier as Liberator: Soviet War Films in the SBZ and the GDR, 1945-65
Lars Karl
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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