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Destination London : German-speaking emigres and British cinema, 1925-1950 / edited by Tim Bergfelder and Christian Cargnelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Film Europa ; v. 6.
- Film Europa ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Germans--Great Britain.
- Germans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The legacy of émigrés in the British film industry, from the late era of silent film to the immediate post-World War Two period, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance. Focusing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, professional training and education, cross-cultural exchange and representation, it begins by mapping the reasons for this neglect before examining the contributions made by émigré directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, set designers, and composers to the British cinema. It
- Contents:
- Title page-Destination London; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-Life is a Variety Theatre-E.A. Dupont's Career in German and British Cinema; Chapter 3-Geza Von Bolvary, Arnold Ridley and 'Film Europe'; Chapter 4-Inside the Robots' Castle; Chapter 5-Flamboyant Realism; Chapter 6-Famously Unknown; Chapter 7-'German or still more Horrible Thought, Russian-at any Rate, It is Un-English!'; Chapter 8-Extending Frames and Exploring Spaces; Chapter 9-Lost in Siberia; Chapter 10-'Be Kvite Kviet, Everybody, Please!'; Chapter 11-Allegories of Displacement
- Chapter 12-Anton WalbrookChapter 13-From 'Alien Person' to 'Darling Lilli'; Chapter 14-'You Call Us ""Germans"" You Call Us ""Brothers""; Chapter 15-Carl Mayer; Chapter 16-Music for the People; Chapter 17-I Know Where I'm Going!; Chapter 18-'An Animated Quest for Freedom'; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612626715
- 9780857458193
- 0857458191
- 9781282626713
- 128262671X
- 9780857450197
- 0857450190
- OCLC:
- 781327775
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