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Screening transcendence : film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood hope, 1933-1938 / Robert Dassanowsky.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.A83 D377 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dassanowsky, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Austria--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry--Political aspects--Austria--History--20th century.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion picture industry--Austria--History--20th century.
- Fascism and motion pictures.
- History.
- Motion picture industry--Political aspects.
- Austria.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 423 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Structures
- 1 System of Faith and Aesthetics of Loss: Austrian Cultural Politics in the First Republic and the Christian Corporate State p. 3
- 2 Scopic Regimes: Notes on Newsreel and Culture Film Production, the Legacy of Baroque and Fin de Siecle Vienna, and Political Catholicism in Public Spectacle p. 24
- 3 Against Nazism and with Catholicism? Two Film Industries and the Jewish Filmmaker's Conundrum p. 44
- Part 2 Genres, Narratives, Contexts
- 4 Cinema Baroque: Reconsidering the Willi Forst / Walter Reisch Viennese Film Genre and its Trans/National/ist Value p. 67
- 5 Projecting Transcendence: Emigrantenfilm, the Church, and the Construction of a Catholic-Political Identity in Singende Jugend and Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld p. 84
- 6 Gendering the Crusade: Female Types and Sexuality in Feature Film p. 110
- 7 Tales of the Patriarchy: Of Cavaliers, Cads, and the Common Man p. 147
- 8 Reasonable Fantasies: Cine-Operetta, Sängerfilm, and Sociocritical Music Film p. 198
- 9 New Order Out of Chaos: The Austrian Screwball and Hybrid Comedy p. 229
- 10 Contemporary Conflicts: Experimentalism, Controversy, and the Question of National Film Style p. 260
- 11 Snow Blinded: The Alps versus Vienna in Film at the End of the Regime p. 309
- 12 From Rome to the Hollywood Hope: Shared Aesthetics, the 1936-1937 Vienna-Hollywood Coproduction Plan, and Cine-Economic Brinkmanship with Berlin p. 341.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dassanowsky, Robert. Screening transcendence.
- ISBN:
- 9780253033628
- 0253033624
- 0253034892
- 9780253034892
- OCLC:
- 1010658092
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