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From 1950 to 1989 East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century folk and literary tales. In The Politics of Magic, Qinna Shen analyses the films on thematic and formal levels and examines their embedded agendas in relation to the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic.

The Politics of Magic

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      Publisher Wayne State University Press
      Published 6/15/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780814339039
      978-0814339039
      ISBN-10 0814339034
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      Literary studies: general Film: styles and genres Folklore studies / Study of myth

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      Book Synopsis
      From 1950 to 1989 East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century folk and literary tales. In The Politics of Magic, Qinna Shen analyses the films on thematic and formal levels and examines their embedded agendas in relation to the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic.

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