CHAPTER 4 DEFA and the Legacy of ‘Film Europe’ Prestige, Institutional Exchange and Film Co-Productions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. INTRODUCTION Re-imagining East German Cinema 1
6. PART I INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGY
7. CHAPTER 1 The State-Owned Cinema Industry and Its Audience 19
8. CHAPTER 2 History and Subjectivity: The Evolution of DEFA Film Music 41
9. CHAPTER 3 ‘Fatal Attractions’ Modernist Set Design and the East–West Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s 61
10. PART II NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS
11. CHAPTER 4 DEFA and the Legacy of ‘Film Europe’ Prestige, Institutional Exchange and Film Co-Productions 85
12. CHAPTER 5 Betting on Entertainment: The Cold War Scandal of Spielbank-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957] 106
13. CHAPTER 6 ‘Operación Silencio’ Studio H&S’s Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema 127
14. CHAPTER 7 Deconstructing Orientalism: DEFA’s Fictions of East Asia 146
15. CHAPTER 8 Transnational Stardom: DEFA’s Management of Dean Reed 168
16. PART III GENRE AND POPULAR CINEMA
17. CHAPTER 9 Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film 191
18. CHAPTER 10 Dreams of ‘Cosmic Culture’ in Der schweigende Stern [The Silent Star, 1960] 210
19. CHAPTER 11 The DEFA Indianerfilm: Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic 227
20. CHAPTER 12 Defining Socialist Children’s Films, Defining Socialist Childhoods 248
21. PART IV DEFA’S LEGACY
22. CHAPTER 13 DEFA’s Last Gasp: Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking 271
23. CHAPTER 14 DEFA’s Antifascist Myth Revisited: KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle [KLK calling PTX – The Red Orchestra, 1971] 292
24. CHAPTER 15 DEFA’s Afterimages: Looking back at the East from the West in Das Leben der Anderen [The Lives of Others, 2006] and Barbara (2012) 312
25. Select Bibliography 335
26. Index 357