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The Authority of Wax: The Child Flâneur in East German Cinema
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, 2021
- pp. 40-58
- 10.1353/chl.2021.0004
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
The article examines cinematic portrayals of child flâneurs in behind the Iron Curtain in East German cinema for youth (DEFA). While early films captured the utopia of the socialistic metropolis of Berlin, later films of the 1970s and 1980s reveal youth without prospects, living under restriction in East Germany. East German cinema for youth mirrors tensions between the ideal of socialism and the reality of a failing system, such as in Heiner Carow's Sheriff Teddy (1957), Ikarus (1975), and Dzuiba's Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre (Sabine Kleist, 7 Years, 1982).
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