The Triumph of the Ordinary
Subtitle: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807853856
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Film theory & criticism; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Motion pictures; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; East Germany, DDR; Germany; Europe - Germany; Film & Video - History & Criticism; German Studies; Media/Media History/Film Studies; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Germany (East)
First sentence: Accounts of GDR cultural policy tend to describe it as some grand peristaltic movement, as an undulating series of contractions and expansions, of crackdowns and letups.