| Description |
1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations, photographs. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Film and Culture
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Film and culture.
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Electronic version available. |
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Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Parallel modernities -- A history of horror -- Tales of urgency and authenticity -- Part 2. Hitler in Hollywood -- Performing resistance, resisting performance -- History as propaganda and parable -- Part 3. You can't go home again -- Out of the past -- The failure of atonement -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle's The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertold Brecht and Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinneman's Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre's Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political refugees -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Political refugees. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- Foreign influences.
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gemünden, Gerd, 1959- Continental strangers : German exile cinema, 1933-1951. New York : Columbia University Press, c2014 ix, 276 pages Film and culture. 9780231166799 2013030080 |
| ISBN |
9780231166799 |
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9780231536523 (e-book) |
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0231536526 |
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9780231166782 |
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0231166788 |
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0231166796 |
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EB00662797 Recorded Books |
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