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Screening Art: Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema

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Screening Art: Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema - Allan, Seán
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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 ...

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Screening Art: Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781800732049

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Screening Art: Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema 2019, Berghahn Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781785339677

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