Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic
Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g
ISBN: 978-1-80073-000-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books
As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering official ideology so as to develop the “socialist personality” of young people and generate enthusiasm for state socialism. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings in and projected their own desires upon them. Four-Color Communism gives a lively account of East German comics from both perspectives, showing how the perceived freedoms they embodied created expectations that ultimately limited the regime’s efforts to bring readers into the fold.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Terms
Introduction: Comics at the Intersection of State Power and Childhood
Chapter 1. Comics and the Crisis of Kultur in the SED State
Chapter 2. State Power and the East German Zeitgeist
Chapter 3. Power, Eigensinn, and the Construction of Space through Comics
Chapter 4. Escape, Escapism, and the Cultural Imperialism of Comic Book Travel in Mosaik and Atze
Chapter 5. Western Influence, Popular Taste, and the Limitations of the FDJ’s Publishing Regime
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
