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Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951

Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951

Hardcover

Series: Film and Culture

20th Century United States HistoryFilm StudiesHolocaust

ISBN10: 0231166788
ISBN13: 9780231166782
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 21 2014
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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