Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational ContextsSéan Allan, Sebastian Heiduschke By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading international experts take stock of this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research, one that considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.” |
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 History and Subjectivity The Evolution of DEFA Film Music Larson Powell | 41 |
CHAPTER 3 Fatal Attractions Modernist Set Design and the EastWest Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s Annette Dorgerloh | 61 |
PART II NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS | 83 |
CHAPTER 4 DEFA and the Legacy of Film Europe Prestige Institutional Exchange and Film CoProductions Mariana Ivanova | 85 |
CHAPTER 5 Betting on Entertainment The Cold War Scandal of SpielbankAffäre Casino Affair 1957 Stefan Soldovieri | 106 |
CHAPTER 9 Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film Sabine Hake | 191 |
CHAPTER 10 Dreams of Cosmic Culture in Der schweigende Stern The Silent Star 1960 Sonja Fritzsche | 210 |
CHAPTER 11 The DEFA Indianerfilm Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic Evan Torner | 227 |
CHAPTER 12 Defining Socialist Childrens Films Defining Socialist Childhoods Benita Blessing | 248 |
PART IV DEFAS LEGACY | 269 |
CHAPTER 13 DEFAs Last Gasp Ruins Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking Nick Hodgin | 271 |
CHAPTER 14 DEFAs Antifascist Myth Revisited KLK an PTX Die Rote Kapelle KLK calling PTX The Red Orchestra 1971 Sebastian Heiduschke | 292 |
CHAPTER 15 DEFAs Afterimages Looking back at the East from the West in Das Leben der Anderen The Lives of Others 2006 and Barbara 2012 ... | 312 |
CHAPTER 6 Operación Silencio Studio HSs Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema Dennis Hanlon | 127 |
CHAPTER 7 Deconstructing Orientalism DEFAs Fictions of East Asia Qinna Shen | 146 |
CHAPTER 8 Transnational Stardom DEFAs Management of Dean Reed Seán Allan | 168 |
PART III GENRE AND POPULAR CINEMA | 189 |
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actors aesthetic antifascist artistic audiences Babelsberg Barbara BArch DR camera casino children’s films Chile China co-productions Cold War communist critical Dean Reed DEFA films DEFA’s Der schweigende Stern director documentary East German East German cinema East German film Eastern Bloc European Federal Republic Felsenstein Film Europe film industry film music film production film’s GDR’s genre Gerhard German Cinema Germany’s Gojko Mitic Hauptverwaltung Film Heynowski Hollywood ideological images Indianerfilme Kinderfilme KLKan PTX Latin American Leben der Anderen Legende von Paul memory modernist narrative Nazi Neues Deutschland opera films Paul und Paula People’s Petzold political popular postwar Press Red Orchestra Reed’s released role rote Kapelle Scheumann schweigende Stern screenplay sequence set design social socialist socialist realism Soviet Union Spielbank-Affäre star story Studio H&S Taugenichts television Teufel vom Mühlenberg Thälmann films Third Cinema tion transnational viewers Walter Felsenstein West Berlin Western