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1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
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polychrome |
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Film culture in transition
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Film culture in transition.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-241) and index. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. City in context -- 3. City of light -- 4. City of darkness -- 5. Divided city -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendices. |
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1. Introduction. Diversity and Exchange -- Rethinking the National in European Cinema -- Cinema and the City -- Paris and the 1930s -- Paris and French Cinema of the 1930s -- France and the Émigrés -- City of Darkness, City of Light -- 2. City in Context. An Historical Ambivalence -- Modernity and the City -- National Boundaries and Early European Sound Cinema -- Paris as Staging Ground for the Early Sound Wars -- Berlin as Prestige Model and Place of Work for French Film Industry Professionals -- Patterns of Exile and Emigration in the Pre-Nazi Era: The Russians and their Relationships to Paris and Berlin -- Trade and Economic Emigration from Berlin to Paris before 1933 -- Case Study One: Anatole Litvak -- Case Study Two: Kurt Courant -- Rise of the Nazis in Berlin and the Politics of Departure -- Place of Jews in Paris -- Reception: The Émigrés' Arrival in Paris -- Reception: The French Film Industry -- Case Study Three: Erich Pommer -- Case Study Four: Robert Siodmak -- 3. City of Light. Paris as Spectacle -- Paris and the Spectacle of Entertainment -- Parisian Journeys Across Time and Space -- 4. City of Darkness. Camera Goes Down the Streets: 'The Hidden Spirit Under the Familiar Façade' -- Framing the Urban Decor -- The Émigrés and Poetic Realism -- Spaces of Crime and Pleasure in the City of Darkness -- Parisian Journeys Between the Past and the Present -- 5. Divided City. Divided City in Context -- Divided Characters, Divided City -- Journeys Across the Divided City -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendices. Tobis In Paris Filmography 1929-1939 -- Osso Filmography 1930-1939 -- Anatole Litvak Filmography 1930-1936 -- Kurt Courant Filmography 1929-1939 -- Erich Pommer French-Language Filmography 1930-1934 -- Robert Siodmak French-Language Filmography 1931-1939 -- Nero Films Filmography 1930-1939 -- La Crise est finie -- La Vie Parisienne -- Mauvaise graine -- Coeur de lilas -- Dans les rues -- Carrefour -- Pièges -- Liliom. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
A ground-breaking study of the cinematic representation of Paris in the films of migr filmmakers who made it their first refuge from Hitler's Germany. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- France -- Paris.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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France -- Paris. |
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Germans -- France -- Paris.
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Germans. |
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Multi-User. |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Phillips, Alastair. City of darkness, city of light. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2004 9053566333 (OCoLC)54464998 |
| ISBN |
0585498180 (electronic book) |
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9780585498188 (electronic book) |
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9789048505258 (electronic book) |
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9048505259 (electronic book) |
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9053566341 (paperback) |
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9789053566343 (paperback) |
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9789053566336 (hardback) |
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9053566333 (hardback) |
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9053566333 |
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