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Four-Color Communism Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic 1st Edition

SKU: 9781800730014

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Four-Color Communism Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic 1st Edition

Author(s)

Sean Eedy

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781800730014, 9781805393368, 9781800730007

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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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Four-Color Communism Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic 1st Edition

SKU: 9781805394457

Original price was: $34.95.Current price is: $10.49.

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Additional information

Full Title

Four-Color Communism Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic 1st Edition

Author(s)

Sean Eedy

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781805394457, 9781805393368, 9781800730007

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.