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.
| ISBN: | 9781800732049 |
| Publication date: | 11th February 2022 |
| Author: | Seán Allan |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 302 pages |
| Series: | Film Europa |
| Genres: |
Film history, theory or criticism Left-of-centre democratic ideologies |
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.
Screening Art features in the following genres: Film history, theory or criticism, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
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Screening Art was written by Seán Allan and published by Berghahn Books
Screening Art has 302 pages
Yes it is part of Film Europa series
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