Screening Art

Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78533-967-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: Film Europa

With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural heritage. Spanning newsreels, documentaries, and feature films, Screening Art is the first full-length investigation into a genre that has been largely overlooked in studies of DEFA, the state-owned Eastern German film studio. As it shows, “artist-films” played an essential role in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in postwar Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allan, Seán

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Allan, Seán
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.

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.