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Austria Made in Hollywood

Austria Made in Hollywood

Vansant, Jacqueline

Hardcover

Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual, Book 19

Austrian & Hungarian HistoryFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1571139451
ISBN13: 9781571139450
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Feb 22 2019
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Considers over sixty Hollywood films set in Austria, examining the film industry, the influence of domestic factors on images of a foreign country, and the persistence of clichés.

Maria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as her family escaped into Switzerland, exclaimed, Don't they know geography in Hollywood? Salzburg does not border on Switzerland! Hadshe thought about the beginning of the film, which transports viewers to Salzburg, Austria in the last Golden Days of the Thirties, when the country was in fact suffering from extreme political and social unrest, she might haveasked, Don't they know history either? In The Sound of Music as well as in Hollywood's many other Austria films, the projections on the screen resemble reflections in a funhouse mirror. Elements of a real place with areal history inhabited by real people can be found in the fractured distortions, which have both drawn from and contributed to the general public's perceptions of the country and its citizens.

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