Cinema in service of the state
Subtitle: perspectives on East German and Czech film culture, 1945-1960
By: edited by Lars Karl and Pavel Skopal
Series: Film Europa: German cinema in an international context
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781782389965; 9781782389972
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; History
Description: The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization and the conservative retrenchment of the late 1950s. This volume comprehensively explores the postwar film cultures of both nations, using a "stereoscopic" approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Ranging from features to children's cinema to film festivals, the studies gathered here provide new insights into the ideological, political and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.