1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780247203321

Autore

Koepnick Lutz P

Titolo

The dark mirror [[electronic resource] ] : German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2002

ISBN

0-520-93635-3

1-59734-573-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/0943

Soggetti

Germans

Germans - California - Los Angeles

Motion picture producers and directors

Motion pictures

Motion pictures-- Germany-- History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Dark Mirror; 1 Sounds of Silence Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry; 2 Incorporating the Underground Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel; 3 Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire; 4 Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity; 5 Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions; 6 Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood; 7 Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism; 8 Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted Melody

Epilogue: "Talking about Germany" Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930's until the mid 1950's, showing how Nazi filmmakers appropriated Hollywood conventions and how German film exiles reworked German cultural material in their efforts to find a working base in the Hollywood studio system.