Screened Encounters

The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990

Caroline Moine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

394 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-047-9 (ISBN)

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Established in 1955, the Leipzig Film Festival’s location in the GDR deeply implicated it in the cultural and political competition between East and West Germany. Screened Encounters offers a comprehensive study of the festival’s history, as well as its influence on international relations during the Cold War.

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.

Caroline Moine is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Her research on the cultural history of the Cold War has been widely published in French, German, and English.

List of Illustrations and Figures

Preface: The Cold War's Documentary Crossroads: Leipzig in the Galaxy of Festivals

Dina Iordanova

Introduction: A Festival at the Heart of the Cold War

PART I: A COLD WAR FESTIVAL (1949-1964)

Chapter 1. The Genesis of the Leipzig Film Festival

Chapter 2. Opening to the World

Chapter 3. Between Propaganda and Cinéma Vérité

PART II: BETWEEN PROVINCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE (1964-1973)

Chapter 4. When the Tide Turns…

Chapter 5. Toward Documentaries with a Human Face

Chapter 6. Documentaries in the Service of International Solidarity

PART III: A TROMPE L'OEIL MISE-EN-SCÈNE? (1973-1983)

Chapter 7. Wide Angle on Socialist Society

Chapter 8. Don’t Wait for Better Times

PART IV: TOWARD NEW HORIZONS (1984-1990)

Chapter 9. An Opening to the East?

Chapter 10. Revolution on the Screen, on the Street

Conclusion: Beyond the Cold War: A Memory in the Making

Appendices

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Film Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Visual and Media Cultures of the Cold War and Beyond
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83695-047-0 / 1836950470
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-047-9 / 9781836950479
Zustand	Neuware