Re-imagining DEFA : East German cinema in its national and transnational contexts

Table of Contents: “…The state-owned cinema industry and its audience / Rosemary Stott -- History and subjectivity : the evolution of DEFA film music / Larson Powell -- 'Fatal attractions' : modernist set design and the East-West divide in DEFA films of the 1950s and early 1960s / Annette Dorgerloh -- DEFA and the legacy of 'film Europe' : prestige, institutional exchange and film co-productions / Mariana Ivanova -- Betting on entertainment : the Cold War scandal of Spielback-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957] / Stefan Soldovieri -- 'Operación silencio' : Studio H & S's Chile cycle as Latin American third cinema / Dennis Hanlon -- Deconstructing orientalism : DEFA's fictions of East Asia / Qinna Shen -- Transnational stardom : DEFA's management of Dean Reed / Seán Allan -- Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA opera film / Sabine Hake -- Dreams of 'cosmic culture' in Der schweigende Stern [The silent star, 1960] / Sonja Fritzsche -- The DEFA Indianerfilm : narrating the postcolonial through Gojko Mitic / Evan Torner -- Defining socialist children's films, defining socialist childhoods / Benita Blessing -- DEFA's last gasp : ruins, melancholy and the end of East German filmmaking / Nick Hodgin -- DEFA's antifascist myth revisited. …”
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