Screened Encounters : The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990
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| Title: | Screened Encounters : The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990 |
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| Description: | Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world. Screened Encounters represents the definitive history of this key event, recounting the political and artistic exchanges it enabled from its founding until German unification, and tracing the outsize influence it exerted on international cultural relations during the Cold War. |
| Authors: | Caroline Moine |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Motion pictures--Political aspects--Germany, Politics in motion pictures, Film festivals--Germany--Leipzig, Cold War in motion pictures |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Germany |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world. Screened Encounters represents the definitive history of this key event, recounting the political and artistic exchanges it enabled from its founding until German unification, and tracing the outsize influence it exerted on international cultural relations during the Cold War. |
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| ISBN: | 9781785339097 9781836950479 9781785339103 9781836951643 |
