Visions of Vienna : Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema / Alexandra Seibel.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Seibel, Alexandra, author.

Series:

• Film culture in transition.
• Film Culture in Transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Motion pictures--Austria--Vienna--History.
• Vienna (Austria)--In motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city, and how the nostalgic glorification of the Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna, Alexandra Seibel shows, persistently articulate the experience of displacement due to emigration, changing gender relations and anti-feminism, class distinction, and anti-Semitism, themes that run counter to the ongoing mystification of Vienna as the incarnation of "waltz dreams" and schmaltz.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1. Introduction: Vienna in Cinema: A Traveling Image, 1920-40
• 2. Fairgrounds and Vineyards: Urban Topographies in the Viennese Films of Erich von Stroheim
• 3. Critical, Controversial, Conventional: Viennese Girls in Films by Ophüls, Feyder, Hochbaum, and Forst
• 4. Women and the Market of Modernity: G.W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (1925)
• 5. The Sound of Make-Believe: Ernst Lubitsch and the World of the Operetta
• 6. Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Illustration Credits
• Filmography
• Bibliography
• Index of Film Titles
• Index of Names and Subjects

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

• 1-04-079298-7
• 1-003-70919-2
• 1-04-079877-2
• 90-485-6131-0
• 90-485-3168-3

OCLC:

1059280720