Screening Art

Seán Allan is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. His publications include the co-edited volumes Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (with Sebastian Heiduschke, 2016) and DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946–1992 (with John Sandford, 1999). He has published widely on the films of Konrad Wolf, Kurt Maetzig and Jürgen Böttcher, and on East German identity in post-unification cinema.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Texts and Contexts



Chapter 1. German Classical Humanism and the Sovietisation of Culture

Chapter 2. Cosmopolitanism, Formalism, and Fantasies of National Culture

Chapter 3. Experiments in Modernism I: From Bitterfeld to Barlach

Chapter 4. Experiments in Modernism II: Responses to the Eleventh Plenum

Chapter 5. New Ways of Seeing: Jürgen Böttcher and the Transformation of Tradition

Chapter 6. The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Romantic Turn



Epilogue: Art, Exile and the Socialist Imaginary



Filmography

Bibliography

Index