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E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film
Paul Matthew St. Pierre
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Description for E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film
Hardback. This book discusses the life and career of German Jewish filmmaker Ewald Andre Dupont (1861--1956), as a journalist, screen writer, and director in Berlin, 1913--25, 1931--33, a director at British International Pictures, 1926--31, and a B-movie director in Hollywood, 1925--26, 1933--56. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 531.
This book discusses the life and career of German Jewish filmmaker Ewald Andre Dupont (1861-1956), as a journalist, screen writer, and director in Berlin, 1913-25, 1931-33, a director at British International Pictures, 1926-31, and a B-movie director in Hollywood, 1925-26, 1933-56. Having apprenticed with Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fritz Lang in Berlin, where he distinguished himself with Das alte Gesetz (1923) and Variete (1925), Dupont launched his career at 'the British Hollywood' of British International Pictures, where he contributed to the studio's international style, experimented with emergent sound technologies, made the world's first multilingual sound pictures, ... Read more
This book discusses the life and career of German Jewish filmmaker Ewald Andre Dupont (1861-1956), as a journalist, screen writer, and director in Berlin, 1913-25, 1931-33, a director at British International Pictures, 1926-31, and a B-movie director in Hollywood, 1925-26, 1933-56. Having apprenticed with Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fritz Lang in Berlin, where he distinguished himself with Das alte Gesetz (1923) and Variete (1925), Dupont launched his career at 'the British Hollywood' of British International Pictures, where he contributed to the studio's international style, experimented with emergent sound technologies, made the world's first multilingual sound pictures, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611474336
SKU
V9781611474336
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About Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Paul Matthew St. Pierre is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
Reviews for E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film
St. Pierre (English, Simon Fraser U., British Columbia) recounts the life and career of German filmmaker Dupont (1891-1956), emphasizing the impact on British film of his work in Germany, Hollywood, and Britain. Stringing the biography from movie to move, he discusses such topics as /> as a precursor of his British Expressionism; , Anna May Wong, and the expressive blue ... Read more