East German Cinema : DEFA and Film History

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
East German Cinema as State Institution....Pages 9-18
Reciprocities and Tensions: DEFA and the East German Entertainment Industry....Pages 19-30
A Cultural Legacy: DEFA’s Afterlife....Pages 31-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-43
The Rubble Film, Wolfgang Staudte, and Postwar German Cinema: Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are among Us, Wolfgang Staudte, 1946)....Pages 45-51
Fairy Tales And Children’s Films as Eternal Blockbusters: Die Geschichte Vom Kleinen Muck (The Story of Little Mook, Wolfgang Staudte, 1953)....Pages 53-59
The Gegenwartsfilm, West Berlin as Hostile Other, and East Germany as Homeland: The Rebel Film Berlin—Ecke Schönhauser (Berlin SchöNhauser Corner, Gerhard Klein, 1957)....Pages 61-67
The Birth of DEFA Genre Cinema, East German Sci-fi Films, New Technologies, and Coproduction with Eastern Europe: Der schweigende Stern (Silent Star, Kurt Maetzig, 1960)....Pages 69-75
Film Censorship, the East German Nouvelle Vague, and the “Rabbit Films”: Das Kaninchen bin ich (The Rabbit Is Me, Kurt Maetzig, 1965)....Pages 77-83
Renegade Films, Defa Musicals, and the Genre Cinema: Heißer Sommer (Hot Summer, Joachim Hasler, 1968)....Pages 85-91
More Genre Cinema, the “Red Western,” and Stardom in East Germany: Apachen (Apaches, Gottfried Kolditz, 1973)....Pages 93-98
Gender, Class, and Sexuality: Ending Taboos in Die Legende von Paul und Paula (The Legend of Paul and Paula, Heiner Carow, 1973)....Pages 99-105
DEFA and the Holocaust, the Antifascist Legacy, and International Acclaim: Jakob der Lügner(Jacob the Liar, Frank Beyer, 1974)....Pages 107-113
The Women’s Film, Konrad Wolf, and Defa After the “Biermann Affair”: Solo Sunny (Konrad Wolf, 1980)....Pages 115-121
Passed by History: Dystopia, Parable, and Bookend: Die Architekten (The Architects, Peter Kahane, 1990)....Pages 123-129
The Wendeflicks, Jörg Foth, and DEFA after Censorship: Letztes aus der Da-Da-eR (Latest from the Da-Da-eR, Jörg Foth, 1990)....Pages 131-137
Back Matter....Pages 139-196