Continental Strangers German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 - Film and Culture

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 Gemünden 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 (1948), and Peter Lorre's Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration.

ISBN:	9780231166782
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Published date:	21 Jan 2014
DEWEY:	791.43097309044
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	ix, 276
Weight:	499g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	23mm

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