Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic - Brossura

Eedy, Sean

 
9781805393368: Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic
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ISBN 10: 1805393367 ISBN 13: 9781805393368
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2024

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull'autore

Sean Eedy holds a doctorate in history from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His publications include articles and chapters on comic book representations of the Holocaust, animated DEFA adaptations of Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and time travel and historical representation in the work of Hannes Hegen. Sean is currently an independent researcher and part-time professor in the Department of History at Trent University.

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Editore
Berghahn Books
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1805393367
ISBN 13 
9781805393368
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
230
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