The politics of magic : DEFA fairy-tale films

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 nineteenth-century folk and literary tales. While many of these films were popular successes and paved the way for the studio's other films to enter the global market, DEFA's fairy-tale corpus has not been studied in its entirety. In The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films, Qinna Shen fills this gap by analyzing the films on thematic and formal levels and examining their embedded agendas in relation to the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic.--Provided by publisher

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780814339039 ; 0814339034
• Dimensions: 23 cm
• Extent: xv, 311 Seiten
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Illustrationen

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Geschichte ; Märchenfilm ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Detroit
• (who): Wayne State University Press
• (when): [2015]
• Creator: Shen, Qinna

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/1076260705/04
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 11.06.2025, 1:37 PM CEST