Four-color communism

• Verfasst von: Eedy, Sean [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Four-color communism
• Titelzusatz: comic books and contested power in the German Democratic Republic
• Verf.angabe: Sean Eedy
• Ausgabe: Frist paperback edition
• Verlagsort: New York ; Oxford
• Verlag: Berghahn
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xi, 218 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-336-8
• Schlagwörter: (g)Deutschland <DDR> / (s)Comic
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: European history
• Sach-SW: Europäische Geschichte
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Europe / Germany
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
• Sach-SW: LIT017000
• Sach-SW: Popular culture
• Sach-SW: Populäre Kultur
• Sach-SW: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Geograph. SW: East Germany, DDR
• Geograph. SW: Ostdeutschland, DDR
• Zeit-SW: Erste Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1950)
• Zeit-SW: c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)
• K10plus-PPN: 1894677145

Abstract

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 regimes 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 regimes efforts to bring readers into the fold