Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: CULTURAL POLICY AND CINEMA
Chapter 1. From Soviet Zone to Volksdemokratie: The Politics of Film Culture in the GDR, 1945-1960
David Bathrick
Chapter 2. Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945-1960
Jiri Knapik
PART II: PRODUCTION AND CO-PRODUCTION
Chapter 3. Veterans and Dilettantes: Film Production Culture vis-a-vis Top-down Political Changes, 1945-1962
Petr Szczepanik
Chapter 4. Barrandov's Co-Productions: The Clumsy Way to Ideological Control, International Competitiveness, and Technological Improvement
Pavel Skopal
Chapter 5. Co-Productions (Un)Wanted: 1950s East/West German Film Collaborations and the Impact of Sovietisation on DEFA's Prestige Agenda
Mariana Ivanova
Chapter 6. No TV without Film: Production Relations between the DEFA Studios and Deutscher Fernsehfunk
Thomas Beutelschmidt
PART III: NON-FICTIONAL CINEMA
Chapter 7. Military Film Studios before 1970: Between Cinematic Avant-Garde and Films on Command
Vaclav Smidrkal
Chapter 8. Socialism for Sale: Czechoslovak Kratky film, Custom-Made Film Production, and the Promotion of Consumer Culture in the 1950s
Lucie Cesalkova
PART IV: CHILDREN'S CINEMA
Chapter 9. Between Magic and Education: the First Fairy Tale Films in the GDR
Christin Niemeyer
Chapter 10. Children's Films: Between Education, Art and Industry
Lukas Skupa
PART V: FILM FESTIVALS
Chapter 11. Decreed Open-Mindedness: The Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Festival in the 1960s as an example of the self-representation of the East German State
Andreas Koetzing
Chapter 12. National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946-1956
Jindriska Blahova
PART VI: DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION
Chapter 13. Cinema Cultures of Integration: Film Distribution and Exhibition in the GDR and Czechoslovakia from the Perspective of Two Local Cases, 1945-1960
Kyrill Kunakhovich and Pavel Skopal
Chapter 14. A Decade between Resistance and Adaptation: The Leipzig University Film Club (1956-1966)
Fernando Ramos Arenas
Chapter 15. Screening the Occupier as Liberator: Soviet War Films in the SBZ and the GDR, 1945-65
Lars Karl
Filmography
Bibliography
Index