Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 (Film Europa, 18)

The National Cinemas Of Czechoslovakia And East Germany Were Two Of The Most Vital Sites Of Filmmaking In The Eastern Bloc, And Over The Course Of Two Decades They Contributed To And Were Shaped By Such Significant Developments As Sovietization, De-stalinization And The Conservative Retrenchment Of The Late 1950s. This Volume Comprehensively Explores The Postwar Film Cultures Of Both Nations, Using A Stereoscopic Approach That Traces Their Similarities And Divergences To Form A Richly Contextualized Portrait. Ranging From Features To Children's Cinema To Film Festivals, The Studies Gathered Here Provide New Insights Into The Ideological, Political And Economic Dimensions Of Cold War Cultural Production. Acknowledgements -- List Of Figures And Tables -- List Of Abbreviations. Introduction. Part 1 Cultural Policy And Cinema : From Soviet Zone To Volksdemokratie: The Politics Of Film Culture In The Gdr, 1945-1960 / David Bathrick -- Czechoslovak Culture And Cinema, 1945-1960 / Jiří Knapík. Part 2 Production And Co-production : Veterans And Dilettantes: Film Production Culture Vis-á-vis Top-down Political Changes, 1945-1962 / Petr Szczepanik -- Barrandov's Co-productions: The Clumsy Way To Ideological Control, International Competitiveness And Technological Improvement / Pavel Skopal -- Co-productions (un)wanted: 1950s East/west German Film Collaborations And The Impact Of Sovietization On Defa's Prestige Agenda / Mariana Ivanova --^ No Tv Without Film: Production Relations Between The Defa Studios And Deutscher Fernsehfunk / Thomas Beutelschmidt. Part 3 Nonfictional Cinema : Military Film Studios Before 1970: Between Cinematic Avant-garde And Films On Command / Václav Šmidrkal -- Socialism For Sale: Czechoslovakia's Krátký Film, Custom-made Film Production, And The Promotion Of Consumer Culture In The 1950s / Lucie Česálková. Part 4 Children's Cinema : Between Magic And Education: The First Fairy Tale Films In The Gdr / Christin Niemeyer -- Children's Films: Between Education, Art And Industry / Lukáš Skupa. Part 5 Film Festivals : 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 --^ National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles Of The Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946-1956 / Jindřiška Bláhhová. Part 6 Distribution And Reception : 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 -- A Decade Between Resistance And Adaptation: The Leipzig University Film Club (1956-1966) / Fernando Ramos Arenas -- Screening The Occupier As Liberator: Soviet War Films Int He Sbz And The Gdr, 1945-1965 / Lars Karl. Filmography -- Index. Edited By Lars Karl And Pavel Skopal. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Filmography. Contents Acknowledgements Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Cultural Policy and Cinema Chapter 1 From Soviet Zone to Volksdemokratie: The Politics of Film Culture in the GDR, 1945–1960 Chapter 2 Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945–1960 Part II Production and Co-production Chapter 3 ‘Veterans’ and ‘Dilettantes’ Film Production Culture vis-à-vis Top- Down Political Changes, 1945–1962 Chapter 4 Barrandov’s Co-productions: The Clumsy Way to Ideological Control, International Competitiveness and Technological Improvement Chapter 5 Co-productions (Un)Wanted: 1950s East/West German Film Collaborations and the Impact of Sovietization on DEFA’s Prestige Agenda Chapter 6 No TV without Film: Production Relations between the DEFA Studios and Deutscher Fernsehfunk Part III Nonfictional Cinema Chapter 7 Military Film Studios before 1970 Between Cinematic Avant-Garde and Films on Command Chapter 8 Socialism for Sale: Czechoslovakia’s Krátký film, Custom- Made Film Production and the Promotion of Consumer Culture in the 1950s Part IV Children’s Cinema Chapter 9 Between Magic and Education: The First Fairy Tale Films in the GDR Chapter 10 Children’s Films: Between Education, Art and Industry 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 Chapter 12 National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946–1956 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 Chapter 14 A Decade between Resistance and Adaptation: The Leipzig University Film Club (1956–1966) Chapter 15 Screening the Occupier as Liberator: Soviet War Films in the SBZ and the GDR, 1945–1965 Filmography Index