Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 by Gerd Gem?nden (English)

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Continental Strangers by Gerd GemÜnden 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. Ulmers The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterles The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitschs To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Langs Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinnemanns Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorres 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Gerd Gemunden is the Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Parallel Modernities 1. A History of Horror 2. Tales of Urgency and Authenticity Part II: Hitler in Hollywood 3. Performing Resistance, Resisting Performance 4. History as Propaganda and Parable Part III: You Cant Go Home Again 5. Out of the Past 6. The Failure of Atonement Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index Review 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 Hollywood emigres and their cultural work. -- Dana Polan, New York University Continental Strangers is a necessary and most compelling pendant to Thomas Dohertys Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. Indeed, these two recent releases provide an impressive ensemble. Doherty depicts how American film studios reacted to Nazi terror in both direct and less overt ways. Gemunden fills out the picture in a series of intriguing case studies devoted to filmmakers who fled Hitler and settled in Southern California. Sensitive to the variety of ways in which German film artists experienced emigration and exile, Gemundens book remains admirably attentive to the historical determinations and textual shapes of Hollywoods anti-Nazi features. -- Eric Rentschler, Harvard University A lucid and comprehensive account of German filmmakers in American exile, this book also offers a poetics of displacement and alienation. It adds another chapter to the story about Hitler and Hollywood and contributes to a deeper historical understanding of political cinema at a moment of crisis. -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley A welcome and well-researched survey. Cineaste Gemundens work... makes a valuable contribution to film history... Journal of American History ...a richly contextualized and nuanced reading of exile cinema... American Historcial Review A most important book. -- Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine Promotional Gemunden offers a composite portrait of German exile cinema rendered in richly evocative case studies--each presented in exquisite detail and with probing insight--as a means of telling the larger, complex, multi-faceted story. -- Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins Gemunden excels as a close reader, using each chapters featured film as a springboard for discussions of a rich set of social and professional networks, aesthetic developments, and historical trajectories. This indispensable panorama of exile cinema profoundly enriches our understanding of a crucial period of Hollywood filmmaking and its transnational resonances. -- Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan Review Quote Gerd Gem Excerpt from Book Read the introduction to Continental Strangers : Details ISBN0231166796 Short Title CONTINENTAL STRANGERS Publisher Columbia University Press Language English ISBN-10 0231166796 ISBN-13 9780231166799 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2014 Imprint Columbia University Press Subtitle German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 791.4302330869120973 Publication Date 2014-01-21 Illustrations B&W Photos: 40, Translated from English UK Release Date 2014-01-21 AU Release Date 2014-01-21 NZ Release Date 2014-01-21 US Release Date 2014-01-21 Author Gerd GemÜnden Pages 296 Series Film and Culture Series Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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