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Continental strangers : German exile cinema, 1933-1951 / Gerd Gemünden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gemünden, Gerd, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Film and culture.
- Film and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political refugees--Germany--History--20th century.
- Political refugees.
- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States--Foreign influences.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930's and 1940's, 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), Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinnemann'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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- Part One. PARALLEL MODERNITIES
- Part Two. HITLER IN HOLLYWOOD
- Part Three. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231536523
- 0231536526
- OCLC:
- 960204269
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