{"product_id":"screening-art-modernist-aesthetics-and-the-socialist-imaginary-in-east-german-cinema-9781785339677","title":"Screening Art: Modernist Aesthetics and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWith 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, \u003cem\u003eScreening Art\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…this book is about more than postwar socialist cinema. Allan places this moment of political filmmaking in the larger context of 21st-century cinematic history, and he does it effectively…and clearly.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Allan’s conceptualization, crucially, supports the established ideas of periodization while also challenging and differentiating the monopoly of these ideas through his selection of case studies and split chapters…The selection of films is a refreshing mix of the canonical and films that so far have received little or no academic attention, organized in well interwoven and thematically cross-referenced chapters.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Modern Language Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book is recommended to whoever would like to add a new facet to their image of the DEFA: Seán Allan’s monograph is the first that pays tribute to films devoted to art and aesthetics in the GDR.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Filmblatt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eScreening Art \u003cem\u003eis deeply grounded in larger cultural questions that have had little discussion in English-language scholarship. Allan’s efforts, both the archival work and the visual analysis, are impressive, and his comprehensive treatment of the most significant cultural-political debates and policies of the GDR is balanced and engaging.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Heather E. Mathews\u003c\/strong\u003e, Pacific Lutheran University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is an accessible and fascinating account of the ways in which East German filmmakers made use of art and artists over more than forty years of film production. Allan proves a knowledgeable and reliable guide to the genre, showing how developments in the\u003c\/em\u003e Künstlerfilm \u003cem\u003ewere subject to paradigm shifts in art and aesthetics in the GDR.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Nick Hodgin\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Cardiff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Texts and Contexts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e German Classical Humanism and the Sovietisation of Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cosmopolitanism, Formalism, and Fantasies of National Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Experiments in Modernism I: From Bitterfeld to Barlach\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Experiments in Modernism II: Responses to the Eleventh Plenum\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e New Ways of Seeing: Jürgen Böttcher and the Transformation of Tradition\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Romantic Turn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue: \u003c\/strong\u003eArt, Exile and the Socialist Imaginary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tFilmography\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042412822871,"sku":"9781785339677","price":74.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785339677.jpg?v=1750954069","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/screening-art-modernist-aesthetics-and-the-socialist-imaginary-in-east-german-cinema-9781785339677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}