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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Book Details
Title
Four-Color Communism
Imprint
Berghahn Books
Product Form
Hardcover
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Genre
History
ISBN13
9781800730007
Book Category
History and Archaeology Books
BISAC Subject Heading
HIS014000
Book Subcategory
Other History Books
Language
English
Dimensions
Height
229 mm
Length
152 mm
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