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Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951
Gerd Gemünden
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Description for Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, B&W Photos: 40,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; APF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, 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 Gemunden 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 ... Read more
Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, 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 Gemunden 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231166782
SKU
V9780231166782
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About Gerd Gemünden
Gerd Gemunden is the Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College.
Reviews for Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951
Deftly, Gerd Gemunden combines perceptive close readings of select films with sharp archival investigation to show how some key movies of classical Hollywood came-in often fraught manner-to engage with the evils of fascism. By understanding cinema as a complex negotiation over political meanings, from production to final results onscreen, this volume represents a major contribution to the literature on the ... Read more