Four-Color Communism (eBook)

Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic

Sean Eedy (Autor)

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2021
230 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-001-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;socialist personality"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.2.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 20th century • Adventures • Comics • communism • communist regime • east german comics • East Germany • educational system • engaging • Europe • European History • GDR • german children • german comics • German Democratic Republic • German History • Germany • government and governing • Graphic Novels • Literary criticism • official ideology • Page Turner • perceived freedoms • Politics • Pop culture • popular culture • Realistic • revolutionaries • socialist personality • state socialism • Totalitarianism • World History • Young people
• ISBN-10: 1-80073-001-2 / 1800730012
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-001-4 / 9781800730014