TY - BOOK AU - Iordanova,Dina AU - Moine,Caroline TI - Screened Encounters: The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990 T2 - Film and the Global Cold War SN - 9781785339097 AV - PN1995.9.D6 .M656 2018 U1 - 070.18 23 PY - 2018///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Cold War in motion pictures KW - Documentary films KW - History and criticism KW - Film festivals KW - Germany KW - Leipzig KW - Motion pictures KW - Political aspects KW - Politics in motion pictures KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism KW - bisacsh KW - Cold War Cinema KW - Film Studies KW - Postwar Germany N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations and Figures --; Preface. The Cold War’s Documentary Crossroads: Leipzig in the Galaxy of Festivals --; Acknowledgments --; 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 in 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785339103?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785339103 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785339103/original ER -