Comprehensive exploration of the postwar film cultures of both Czechoslovakia and the GDR. Situates these two national cinemas within the broader context of Eastern European film production as a whole. Uses a "stereoscopic" approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Provides insights into ideological, political and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.
Comprehensive exploration of the postwar film cultures of both Czechoslovakia and the GDR. Situates these two national cinemas within the broader context of Eastern European film production as a whole. Uses a "stereoscopic" approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Provides insights into ideological, political and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.
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.
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Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: CULTURAL POLICY AND CINEMA Chapter 1. From Soviet Zone to Volksdemokratie: The Politics of Film Culture in the GDR, 1945-1960 David Bathrick Chapter 2. Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945-1960 Jirí Knapík PART II: PRODUCTION AND CO-PRODUCTION Chapter 3. "Veterans" and "Dilettantes": Film Production Culture vis-à-vis Top-down Political Changes, 1945-1962 Petr Szczepanik Chapter 4. Barrandov's Co-Productions: The Clumsy Way to Ideological Control, International Competitiveness, and Technological Improvement Pavel Skopal Chapter 5. Co-Productions (Un)Wanted: 1950s East/West German Film Collaborations and the Impact of Sovietisation on DEFA's Prestige Agenda Mariana Ivanova Chapter 6. No TV without Film: Production Relations between the DEFA Studios and Deutscher Fernsehfunk Thomas Beutelschmidt PART III: NON-FICTIONAL CINEMA Chapter 7. Military Film Studios before 1970: Between Cinematic Avant-Garde and Films on Command Václav smidrkal Chapter 8. Socialism for Sale: Czechoslovak Krátký film, Custom-Made Film Production, and the Promotion of Consumer Culture in the 1950s Lucie Cesálková PART IV: CHILDREN'S CINEMA Chapter 9. Between Magic and Education: the First Fairy Tale Films in the GDR Christin Niemeyer Chapter 10. Children's Films: Between Education, Art and Industry LukáS Skupa PART V: FILM FESTIVALS Chapter 11. Decreed Open-Mindedness: The Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Festival in the 1960s as an example of the self-representation of the East German State Andreas Kötzing Chapter 12. National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946-1956 JindriSka Bláhová PART VI: DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION Chapter 13. Cinema Cultures of Integration: Film Distribution and Exhibition in the GDR and Czechoslovakia from the Perspective of Two Local Cases, 1945-1960 Kyrill Kunakhovich and Pavel Skopal Chapter 14. A Decade between Resistance and Adaptation: The Leipzig University Film Club (1956-1966) Fernando Ramos Arenas Chapter 15. Screening the Occupier as Liberator: Soviet War Films in the SBZ and the GDR, 1945-65 Lars Karl Filmography Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: CULTURAL POLICY AND CINEMA Chapter 1. From Soviet Zone to Volksdemokratie: The Politics of Film Culture in the GDR, 1945-1960 David Bathrick Chapter 2. Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945-1960 Jirí Knapík PART II: PRODUCTION AND CO-PRODUCTION Chapter 3. "Veterans" and "Dilettantes": Film Production Culture vis-à-vis Top-down Political Changes, 1945-1962 Petr Szczepanik Chapter 4. Barrandov's Co-Productions: The Clumsy Way to Ideological Control, International Competitiveness, and Technological Improvement Pavel Skopal Chapter 5. Co-Productions (Un)Wanted: 1950s East/West German Film Collaborations and the Impact of Sovietisation on DEFA's Prestige Agenda Mariana Ivanova Chapter 6. No TV without Film: Production Relations between the DEFA Studios and Deutscher Fernsehfunk Thomas Beutelschmidt PART III: NON-FICTIONAL CINEMA Chapter 7. Military Film Studios before 1970: Between Cinematic Avant-Garde and Films on Command Václav smidrkal Chapter 8. Socialism for Sale: Czechoslovak Krátký film, Custom-Made Film Production, and the Promotion of Consumer Culture in the 1950s Lucie Cesálková PART IV: CHILDREN'S CINEMA Chapter 9. Between Magic and Education: the First Fairy Tale Films in the GDR Christin Niemeyer Chapter 10. Children's Films: Between Education, Art and Industry LukáS Skupa PART V: FILM FESTIVALS Chapter 11. Decreed Open-Mindedness: The Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Festival in the 1960s as an example of the self-representation of the East German State Andreas Kötzing Chapter 12. National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946-1956 JindriSka Bláhová PART VI: DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION Chapter 13. Cinema Cultures of Integration: Film Distribution and Exhibition in the GDR and Czechoslovakia from the Perspective of Two Local Cases, 1945-1960 Kyrill Kunakhovich and Pavel Skopal Chapter 14. A Decade between Resistance and Adaptation: The Leipzig University Film Club (1956-1966) Fernando Ramos Arenas Chapter 15. Screening the Occupier as Liberator: Soviet War Films in the SBZ and the GDR, 1945-65 Lars Karl Filmography Bibliography Index
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