Cinema in Service of the State - Perspectives on Film Culture in the Gdr and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960

Informationen zum Autor Lars Karl is a Researcher at the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe and a Lecturer at the University of Leipzig and the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has published a book on the perception of Soviet movies in the GDR and numerous articles on Russian and Soviet film history. Pavel Skopal is a Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture, Masaryk University, Brno. He has edited anthologies devoted to the Czech film industry in the 1950s and local cinema history, and he has published a book of comparative research on cinema distribution and reception in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the GDR. His current book project is focused on co-productions between East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Despite being two key sites for filmmaking in the Soviet bloc! the national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany have received comparatively little attention from scholars. This volume comprehensively explores these film cultures to form a multifaceted! richly contextualized portrait. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Jirí Knapík PART II: PRODUCTION AND CO-PRODUCTION Chapter 3. "Veterans" and "Dilettantes": Film Production Culture vis-à-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 Václav smidrkal Chapter 8. Socialism for Sale: Czechoslovak Krátký film, Custom-Made Film Production, and the Promotion of Consumer Culture in the 1950s Lucie Cesálková 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 LukáS 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 Kötzing Chapter 12. National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946-1956 JindriSka Bláhová PART VI: DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION Chapter 13. Cinema Cultures of Integration: Film Distribution and Exhibition in the GDR and Czechoslovakia from ...

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• Authors: Lars Skopal Karl
• Assisted by: Lars Karl (Editor), Pavel Skopal (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9781782389965
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-996-5
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Film Europa
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV