The dark mirror : German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood / Lutz Koepnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter)

Series:

Weimar and now ; 32.

Weimar and now ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Germans--California--Los Angeles.

Germans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930's until the mid 1950's, showing how Nazi filmmakers appropriated Hollywood conventions and how German film exiles reworked German cultural material in their efforts to find a working base in the Hollywood studio system.

Contents:

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Dark Mirror; 1 Sounds of Silence Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry; 2 Incorporating the Underground Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel; 3 Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire; 4 Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity; 5 Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions; 6 Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood; 7 Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism; 8 Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted Melody

Epilogue: "Talking about Germany" Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-520-93635-3

1-59734-573-3

OCLC:

475926835