Totalitarianism on Screen
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Totalitarianism on Screen

The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others

Carl Eric Scott,F. Flagg TaylorIV

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Totalitarianism on Screen

The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others

Carl Eric Scott,F. Flagg TaylorIV

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From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's 2006 film The Lives of Others ( Das Leben der Anderen ) has received international acclaim—including an Academy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and multiple German Film Awards—for its moving portrayal of East German life under the pervasive surveillance of the Stasi.

In Totalitarianism on Screen, political theorists Carl Eric Scott and F. Flagg Taylor IV assemble top scholars to analyze the film from philosophical and political perspectives. Their essays confront the nature and legacy of East Germany's totalitarian government and outline the reasons why such regimes endure.

Other than magazine and newspaper reviews, little has been written about The Lives of Others. This volume brings German scholarship on the topic to an English-speaking audience for the first time and explores the issue of government surveillance at a time when the subject is often front-page news. Featuring contributions from German president Joachim Gauck, prominent singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, journalists Paul Hockenos and Lauren Weiner, and noted scholars Paul Cantor and James Pontuso, Totalitarianism on Screen contributes to the growing scholarship on totalitarianism and will interest historians, political theorists, philosophers, and fans of the film.

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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Year
2014
ISBN
9780813145006
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Fascism & Totalitarianism
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Part 1. Truth and Dissent
  8. Part 2. Art and Politics
  9. Part 3. The Lives of Others and Other Films
  10. Part 4. The Lives of Others and the History of the GDR
  11. Part 5. The Stasi in the GDR
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. List of Contributors
  14. Index
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APA 6 Citation

Scott, C. E., & Taylor, F. (2014). Totalitarianism on Screen ([edition unavailable]). The University Press of Kentucky. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/873245/totalitarianism-on-screen-the-art-and-politics-of-the-lives-of-others-pdf (Original work published 2014)

Chicago Citation

Scott, Carl Eric, and Flagg Taylor. (2014) 2014. Totalitarianism on Screen. [Edition unavailable]. The University Press of Kentucky. https://www.perlego.com/book/873245/totalitarianism-on-screen-the-art-and-politics-of-the-lives-of-others-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Scott, C. E. and Taylor, F. (2014) Totalitarianism on Screen. [edition unavailable]. The University Press of Kentucky. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/873245/totalitarianism-on-screen-the-art-and-politics-of-the-lives-of-others-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Scott, Carl Eric, and Flagg Taylor. Totalitarianism on Screen. [edition unavailable]. The University Press of Kentucky, 2014. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.