Sean Allan

Screening Art

Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Screening Art represents the first full-length study of films about art and artists produced by the state-owned Eastern German film studio DEFA. It investigates the essential role that these "art films" played in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in post-war Europe.

Produktdetails

• Film Europa
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781785339677
• ISBN-10: 1785339672
• Artikelnr.: 53301604

Autorenporträt

Seán 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 Jürgen Böttcher, and on East German identity in post-unification cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

List 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: Jürgen Böttcher and the Transformation of
Tradition
Chapter 6. The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Romantic Turn
Epilogue: Art, Exile and the Socialist Imaginary
Filmography
Bibliography
Index