The politics of magic [electronic resource] : DEFA fairy-tale films / Qinna Shen.

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From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on ninetee...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Series in fairy-tale studies.
Main Author: Shen, Qinna (Author)
Language:English
Published: Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2015]
Series:Series in fairy-tale studies.
Subjects:
DEFA > History.
Motion pictures > Germany (East) > History.
Fairy tales in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > Germany (East)
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
DEFA fairy-tale films
Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft fairy-tale films
The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Tales of the time: an overview of DEFA fairy-tale films
  • Inheriting the humanist tradition: subversion of magic in early fairy tale models
  • Entangled in the Cold War: tales of struggle and political allegories
  • Love is real wealth: money, work, and the Cold War
  • Ambiguity between Conformism and Resistance: slave-language and political satires
  • A sigh of the times: tales of civil rights, peace, and ecology
  • Conclusion: (Socialist) countertales: disenchantment and (Re)enchantment in DEFA fairy tales.