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Eedy, Sean. Four-Color Communism: Comic books and contested power in the german democratic republic. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. Added by: joachim (12/06/2022, 12:26) Last edited by: joachim (12/06/2022, 12:34) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781800730007 BibTeX citation key: Eedy2021 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: GDR, Germany, Historical account, Kulturpolitik Creators: Eedy Publisher: Berghahn Books (Oxford, New York) |
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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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