The Politics of Magic: Defa Fairy-Tale Films

by Qinna Shen

From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century folk and literary tales. While many of these films were popular successes and paved the way for the studio's other films to enter the global...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814339034
• ISBN13: 9780814339039
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"