Cinema in Service of the State

Lars Karl

ISBN 10: 1785337386 / ISBN 13: 9781785337383

Published by Berghahn Books, GB, 2017

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cinema in Service of the State
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785337386
• ISBN 13: 9781785337383
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Lars Karl is a Researcher at the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe and a Lecturer at the University of Leipzig and the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has published a book on the perception of Soviet movies in the GDR and numerous articles on Russian and Soviet film history.

Pavel Skopal is a Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture, Masaryk University, Brno. He has edited anthologies devoted to the Czech film industry in the 1950s and local cinema history, and he has published a book of comparative research on cinema distribution and reception in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the GDR. His current book project is focused on co-productions between East Germany and Czechoslovakia.